Thomas Fuller Quotes - Page 3

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

He that travels much knows much.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

Good clothes open all doors.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.