Thomas Fuller Quotes

1964. If thou wilt have no Difference with thy Friends; sell them not Horses, nor Goods; and buy nothing of them.

6050. Your Head's so hot, that your Brains bubble over.

2437. He's a Friend to none, that is a Friend to all.

4192. Small Pitchers have wide Ears.

5572. When the Cat's gone, the Mice grow sawcy.

Nothing venture, nothing have.

2216. He that lies down with the Dogs, must rise with the fleas.

2858. By Trifles and unheeded common Things of Life, thou may'st discover Mens Qualities, Tempers, and Inclinations, better than by their greater Actions : Because in Matters of Importance they strain themselves, but in lesser Things they heedlessly follow the Current of their own Natures.

3017. It is sooner said than done.

804. Antiquity is not always a Mark of Verity.

3859. Patience provok'd turns to Fury.

Man proposes;
God disposes.

2915. Suffer a Friend to reprove thee, and thank him heartily for it : 'Tis a Happiness for a Man that he can be reproved when he does amiss, and be recalled when he runs wrong. Princes are deprived of that Benefit : for they converse familiarly but with very few Persons, and those make it their only Business to humour them.

2420. He wrongs not an old Man, who steals his Supper from him.

1953. Learn the art of Silence; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.