Thomas Fuller Quotes - Page 2

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Great hopes make great men.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Abused patience turns to fury.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

The more wit the less courage.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.