Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Pride
Venture not to the utmost bounds of even lawful pleasures; the limits of good and evil join.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Pleasure
Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear.
—Thomas Fuller
A good life fears not life nor death.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Anxiety, Fear
Despair gives courage to a coward.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Courage, Despair
As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Generosity, Courtesy
The subject’s love is the king’s best guard.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Power
He that is busy is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Idleness
Memory is the treasure-house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Memory
Our eyes, when gazing on sinful objects, are out of their calling, and out of God’s keeping.
—Thomas Fuller
Disobedient children, if preserved from the gallows, are reserved for the rack, to be tortured by their own posterity.—One complaining, that never father had so undutiful a child as he had, yes, said his son, with less grace than truth, my grandfather had.
—Thomas Fuller
A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Paradise
When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Giving, Gifts
Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Memory
When there is no recreation or business for thee abroad, thou mayst then have a company of honest old fellows, in leathern jackets, in thy study, which may find thee excellent divertisement at home.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Reading
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married state.—Look not therein for contentment greater than God will give, or a creature in this world can receive, namely, to be free from all inconveniences.—Marriage is not like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Marriage
A generous confession disarms slander.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Slander, Insults
He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Charity, Giving
A man surprised is half beaten.
—Thomas Fuller
No garden is without its weeds.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: One liners, Gardening
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Appearance
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Friendship
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Optimism, Happiness, Positive Attitudes
History maketh a young man to be old, without wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: History
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Growth, Reading, Books
Old foxes want no tutors.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Learning
Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
—Thomas Fuller
Act nothing in furious passion. It’s putting to sea in a storm.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Passion, Anger
Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!
—Thomas Fuller
For a wife take the daughter of a good mother.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Wife
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