290 Thomas Fuller Quotes

It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

Nature hath appointed the twilight, as a bridge, to pass us out of night into day.

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

As for those parents who will not use the rod upon their children, I pray God He useth not their children as a rod for them.

Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.

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

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.

Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness; a fault never found unattended with other viciousness.

With foxes we must play the fox.

If thou would'st be borne with, then bear with others.

Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Dwell not too long upon sports; for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.

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

Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

Riches are long in getting with much pains, hard in keeping with much care, quick in losing with more sorrow.

Lord, be pleased to shake my clay cottage before Thou throwest it down.

Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.

If an ass goes traveling he will not come home a horse.