If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Master, Kindness
A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Paradise
If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Woman
A man surprised is half beaten.
—Thomas Fuller
Many hope the tree may be felled that they may gather chips by the fall.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Reform
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Conscience, Sleeping
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, Books, Reading
To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.
—Thomas Fuller
The more laws, the more offenders.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Laughter
Dwell not too long upon sports; for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
—Thomas Fuller
A wilful falsehood is a cripple, not able to stand by itself without another to support it. It is easy to tell a lie, but hard to tell only one lie.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Lying
The greatest man living may stand in need of the meanest, as much as the meanest does of him.
—Thomas Fuller
The more wit the less courage.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Bravery, Courage
Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Pleasure
He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Wealth
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Gratitude, Appreciation, Blessings
‘Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Integrity
I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Acceptance
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Light, Architecture, Science
Hard, rugged, and dull natures of youth acquit themselves afterward the jewels of the country, and therefore their dulness at first is to be borne with, if they be diligent. That school master deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whipping in the world can make their parts, which are naturally sluggish, rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Education, Mind
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
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Willpower, Will, Will Power
Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Curiosity
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Aspirations, Goals
Good counsels observed, are chains to grace, which, neglected, prove halters to strange, undutiful children.
—Thomas Fuller
Command thy servant advisably with few plain words, fully, freely, and positively, with a grave countenance, and settled carriage: These will procure obedience, gain respect, and maintain authority.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Servants
He that would have the fruit must first climb the tree.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Success, Effort, Risk, Courage
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
—Thomas Fuller
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
—Thomas Fuller
Topics: Optimism, Happiness, Positive Attitudes
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: Courtesy, Generosity
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Arnold J. Toynbee British Historian
- Enoch Powell British Politician
- Dorothy L. Sayers English Novelist, Playwright
- Winston Churchill British Head of State
- Jane Austen English Novelist
- Isaac Newton English Physicist
- William Makepeace Thackeray English Novelist
- Anthony Trollope English Novelist
- Anne Bronte English Novelist, Poet
- John Wilkins English Anglican Clergyman
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