Thomas Fuller Quotes - Page 4

In fair weather prepare for foul.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.