Thomas Fuller Quotes

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

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.

A stiches in time,saves nine

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

Nothing costs so much as what is given us.

Praise makes good Men better, and bad Men worse.

He who has no Fools, Knaves, nor Beggars in his Family, was begot by a Flash of Lightning.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with such as cannot be angry, and with the Caspian sea never ebbe nor flow. This Anger is either Heavenly, when one is of∣fended for God: or Hellish, when offended with God and Goodnes: or Earthly, in temporal matters. Which Earthly Anger (whereof we treat) may also be Hellish, if for no cause, no great cause, too hot, or too long.

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

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.