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Thomas Fuller [1608-1661] English

Rank: 101
Clergyman, Churchman

Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published in 1662 after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Health is not valued till sickness comes.	Health	101
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.	Friendship	102
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.		103
Great hopes make great men.	Great, Inspirational, Men	104
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.		105
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.	Motivational	106
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.		107
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.	Love	108
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.	Knowledge	109
All things are difficult before they are easy.	Work	110
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.	Leadership	111
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.	Hope	112
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.	Dating	113
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.		114
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.		115
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.	Peace	116
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.		117
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.		118
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.	Strength	119
A good horse should be seldom spurred.		120
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.	Love	121
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.		122
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.		123
Care and diligence bring luck.	Chance	124
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.		125
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.		126
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.	Chance	201
Abused patience turns to fury.	Patience	202
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.	Anger	203
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.	Money	204
Despair gives courage to a coward.	Courage	205
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.		206
Bad excuses are worse than none.		207
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.	Travel	208
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.		209
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.	Power	210
Better be alone than in bad company.	Alone	211
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.		212
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.	Birthday	213
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.		214
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.	Home	215
With foxes we must play the fox.		216
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.	Forgiveness	217
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.	Home	218
A good garden may have some weeds.	Gardening	219
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.		220
'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.		221
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.		222
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.		223
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.		224
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.		225
Scalded cats fear even cold water.	Fear	226
A man is not good or bad for one action.		301
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.		302
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.	Music	303
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.	Thankful	304
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.		305
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.		306
Today is yesterday's pupil.		307
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.		308
All doors open to courtesy.		309
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.	Friendship	310
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.		311
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.	Architecture, Beauty	312
In fair weather prepare for foul.	Leadership	313
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.		314
Better a tooth out than always aching.		315
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.		316
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.	Wisdom	317
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.		318
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.		319
Eaten bread is forgotten.		320
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.		321
Poor men's reasons are not heard.		322
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.		323
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.		324
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.		325
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.		326
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.		401
He that hopes no good fears no ill.		402
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.		403
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.		404
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.	Smile	405
We have all forgot more than we remember.		406
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.		407
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.		408
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.		409
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.		410
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.		411
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.	Anger	412
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.	Patience	413
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.		414
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.		415
Pride will spit in pride's face.		416
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.		417
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.		418
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.		419
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.		420
Old foxes want no tutors.		421
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.		422
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.		423
He that travels much knows much.		424
A book that is shut is but a block.		425
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.		426
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.		501
The more wit the less courage.	Courage	502
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.		503
A good friend is my nearest relation.		504
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.		505
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!		506
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.		507

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