Thomas Fuller Quotes

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.

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

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

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

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

If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole.

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come — as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

A stiches in time,saves nine

There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it.

Good is not good, where better is expected

In fair weather, prepare for foul.

Let not thy anger be so hot, but that the most torrid zone thereof may be habitable. Fright not people from thy pre∣sence with the terrour of thy intolerable impatience. Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.

If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.