Thomas Fuller Quotes

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

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

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

But our captain counts the image of God — nevertheless his image — cut in ebony as if done in ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of Heaven.

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

Good clothes open all doors.

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.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Be the business never so painful you may have done it for money

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

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

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