Thomas Fuller

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

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

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Great hopes make great men.

Cruelty is a tyrant thats always attended with fear.

Great hope makes great men

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Praises from wicked men are reproaches.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel but in taking away some fire.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Old foxes want no tutors.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

With foxes we must play the fox.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

The more wit the less courage.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Compliments cost nothing yet many pay dear for them.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

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

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Good clothes open all doors.

You can't judge a horse by its harness.

Contentment consists not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire; not in multiplying of wealth, but in subtracting people's desires. Generally those who boast most of contentment have least of it. Their very boasting shows they want something and basely beg it, namely commendation.

Debt is the worst poverty.

An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

All doors open to courtesy.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Fear can keep a man out of danger but courage only can support him in it.

He spits out secrets like hot custard.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

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

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

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

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Sickness is felt, but health not at all.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

He that travels much knows much.

Absence sharpens love presence strengthens it.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

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

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

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

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

The devil lies brooding in the misers chest.

You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.