Thomas Fuller Quotes

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

Danger past, God is forgotten.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

Unschuld ist kein Schutz.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.

Take heed of doing irrevocable acts in thy passion, As the revealing of secrets, which makes thee a bankrupt for society ever after: neither do such things which done once are done for ever, so that no bemoaning can amend them. Sampsons hair grew again, but not his eyes: Time may restore some losses, others are never to be repaird. Wherefore in thy rage make no Persian decree which cannot be revers'd or repeald; but rather Polonian laws which (they say) last but three dayes: Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompence.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Добър език - добро оръжие.

With foxes we must play the fox.

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

Scalded cats fear even cold water.