Thomas Fuller Quotes

Danger past, God is forgotten.

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

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.

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

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

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

A book that is shut is but a block.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

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 it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Nothing costs so much as what is given us.

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

Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.

Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.