Thomas Fuller Quotes

146. A good Example is the best Sermon.

1579. Fools may invent Fashions, that wise Men will wear.

2569. Hunger is the best Sauce.

350. A Pin a Day is a Groat a Year.

3733. Once in Use, and ever after a Custom.

959. Bees that have Honey in their Mouths, have Stings in their Tails.

509. All complain of want of Memory, but none of want of Judgment.

569. All Women are good ; viz. good for something, or good for nothing.

3082. To what Purpose shouldest thou seek great Things for thyself in the World? or having obtained them, prize them at any considerable Rate? or value thyself upon them? seeing thou knowest not, but this Night thy Soul may be required of thee, when thou shalt be divested of them all. 'Twould be as vain and unreasonable, as for a Traveler, that is to stay at his Inn but for a night, to take great Thought and Pains about furnishing and adorning his Chamber, which the next Morning he must leave to the next Comer.

5222. To run the Wild-Goose Chace.

Man proposes;
God disposes.

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.

5485. What costs little, is less esteemed.

5049. Time and Tide tarry for no Man.