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Thomas Fuller Quotes

It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship | Eternity

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
– Thomas Fuller
Hope

If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.
– Thomas Fuller
Lying | Truth

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
– Thomas Fuller
Fear | The Future

Health is not valued till sickness comes.
– Thomas Fuller
Health | Illness

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
– Thomas Fuller
Wisdom | Light | Knowledge

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
– Thomas Fuller
Anger

Learn to hold thy tongue; five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence.
– Thomas Fuller
Gossip | Discretion | The Tongue

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy | Believing

For a wife take the daughter of a good mother.
– Thomas Fuller
Marriage | Mothers | Daughters

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.
– Thomas Fuller
Kindness

Let thy child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
– Thomas Fuller
Children | Obedience

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
– Thomas Fuller
Peace

She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.
– Thomas Fuller
Marriage

Nature hath appointed the twilight, as a bridge, to pass us out of night into day.
– Thomas Fuller
Life | Nature

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
– Thomas Fuller
Forgiveness

As for those parents who will not use the rod upon their children, I pray God He useth not their children as a rod for them.
– Thomas Fuller
Parents

Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
– Thomas Fuller
Pride | Hypocrisy

Better hazard once than always be in fear.
– Thomas Fuller
Perseverance | Fear

Lord, be pleased to shake my clay cottage before Thou throwest it down.
– Thomas Fuller
Justice

The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whippings in the world can make their parts which are naturally sluggish rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy

Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.
– Thomas Fuller
Fire | Men

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
– Thomas Fuller
Pride

A coward’s fear can make a coward valiant.
– Thomas Fuller
Fear

It was said of one who preached very well, and lived very ill, “that when he was out of the pulpit it was pity he should ever go into it; and when he was in the pulpit, it was pity he should ever come out of it.”
– Thomas Fuller
Preaching

Better one’s house be too little one day than too big all the year after.
– Thomas Fuller
Family

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.
– Thomas Fuller
Family | Foolishness

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
– Thomas Fuller
Marriage

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
– Thomas Fuller
Family

It is a shame when the church itself is a cemetery, where the living sleep above the ground, as the dead do beneath.
– Thomas Fuller
Church

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
– Thomas Fuller
Drunkenness

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
– Thomas Fuller
Kindness

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
– Thomas Fuller
Suffering | Bitterness | Endurance

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience | Suffering | Endurance

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
– Thomas Fuller
Kindness | Revenge | Men

Try to be happy in this very present moment; and put not off being so to a time to come; as though that time should be of another make from this, which is already come, and is ours.
– Thomas Fuller
Happiness | Time

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
– Thomas Fuller
Hope

Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches.
– Thomas Fuller
Miracles | Church

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.
– Thomas Fuller
Honesty | Discretion | Men

Disobedient children, if preserved from the gallows, are reserved for the rack, to be tortured by their own posterity. One complaining, that never father had so undutiful a child as he had, yes, said his son, with less grace than truth, my grandfather had.
– Thomas Fuller
Children

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience | Passion

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
– Thomas Fuller
Wisdom | Foolishness

All doors open to courtesy.
– Thomas Fuller
Kindness

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience

History maketh a young man to be old, without wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.
– Thomas Fuller
History | Youth | Age

Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness; a fault never found unattended with other viciousness.
– Thomas Fuller
Gratitude

With foxes we must play the fox.
– Thomas Fuller
Discretion

If thou would’st be borne with, then bear with others.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship | Discretion

Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.
– Thomas Fuller
Marriage

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.
– Thomas Fuller
Discretion

Dwell not too long upon sports; for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
– Thomas Fuller
Sports

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.
– Thomas Fuller
Laziness

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
– Thomas Fuller
Marriage

Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.
– Thomas Fuller
LoveFriendshipEnemies

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
– Thomas Fuller
Contentment

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.
– Thomas Fuller
Greed | Men

The Golden Age was never the present Age.
– Thomas Fuller
Contentment

Riches are long in getting with much pains, hard in keeping with much care, quick in losing with more sorrow.
– Thomas Fuller
Wealth

Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.
– Thomas Fuller
Reasoning

If an ass goes traveling he will not come home a horse.
– Thomas Fuller
Character

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.
– Thomas Fuller
Apathy | Discretion | Business

With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.
– Thomas Fuller
Satan | Piety

He will be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault.
– Thomas Fuller
Life

It is riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances

Those who are surly and imperious to their inferiors are generally humble, flattering, and cringing to their superiors.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy

Soft words are hard arguments.
– Thomas Fuller
Discretion

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
– Thomas Fuller
Discretion

He is idle that might be better employed.
– Thomas Fuller
Idleness

Prospect is often better than possession.
– Thomas Fuller
Achievement

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
– Thomas Fuller
Health

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
– Thomas Fuller
Hope | The Heart

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
– Thomas Fuller
Character

Prescribe no positive laws to thy will; for thou mayest be forced tomorrow to drink the same water thou despisest today.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy | Discretion

Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and turn even the rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.
– Thomas Fuller
Truth | Beauty

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
– Thomas Fuller
Greed

If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.
– Thomas Fuller
Encouragement

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
– Thomas Fuller
Achievement | Knowledge

None can pray well but he that lives well.
– Thomas Fuller
Prayer

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom nature hath built many stories high.
– Thomas Fuller
Philosophy

Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.
– Thomas Fuller
Love

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances | The Heart

As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.
– Thomas Fuller
Giving

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
– Thomas Fuller
Contentment | Discretion

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
– Thomas Fuller
Honesty

God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship

The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new; as if a gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband’s estate; and, if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is by match.
– Thomas Fuller
Marriage

Good counsels observed, are chains to grace, which, neglected, prove halters to strange, undutiful children.
– Thomas Fuller
Children

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
– Thomas Fuller
Character

All the while that thou livest ill, thou hast the trouble, distraction, and inconveniences of life, but not the sweet and true use of it.
– Thomas Fuller
Life

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
– Thomas Fuller
Discouragement | Discretion

Contentment consists not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
– Thomas Fuller
Contentment | Discretion

Bad excuses are worse than none.
– Thomas Fuller
Discretion

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.
– Thomas Fuller
Contentment

An index is a necessary implement, without which a large author is but a labyrinth without a clue to direct the readers within.
– Thomas Fuller
Books

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.
– Thomas Fuller
Fathers

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.
– Thomas Fuller
Religion

Better be alone than in bad company.
– Thomas Fuller
Character

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