290 Thomas Fuller Quotes

Search within the 290 Thomas Fuller Quotes
289
It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.
- Thomas Fuller
102

288
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
- Thomas Fuller
17




287
If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.
- Thomas Fuller
9

286
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
- Thomas Fuller
8

285
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
- Thomas Fuller
7




284
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
- Thomas Fuller
6

283
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
6

282
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
- Thomas Fuller
5

281
Learn to hold thy tongue; five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence.
- Thomas Fuller
5

280
Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.
- Thomas Fuller
3

279
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
- Thomas Fuller
3

278
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
- Thomas Fuller
3

277
The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whippings in the world can make their parts which are naturally sluggish rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.
- Thomas Fuller
2

276
For a wife take the daughter of a good mother.
- Thomas Fuller
2

275
Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
- Thomas Fuller
2

274
She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.
- Thomas Fuller
2

273
Nature hath appointed the twilight, as a bridge, to pass us out of night into day.
- Thomas Fuller
2

272
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
- Thomas Fuller
2

271
It is a shame when the church itself is a cemetery, where the living sleep above the ground, as the dead do beneath.
- Thomas Fuller
2




270
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
- Thomas Fuller
2

269
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
- Thomas Fuller
2

268
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
- Thomas Fuller
2

267
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.
- Thomas Fuller
2

266
Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
- Thomas Fuller
2

265
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
- Thomas Fuller
2

264
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
- Thomas Fuller
2

263
Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.
- Thomas Fuller
1

262
Lord, be pleased to shake my clay cottage before Thou throwest it down.
- Thomas Fuller
1

261
Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.
- Thomas Fuller
1

260
It is riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy.
- Thomas Fuller
1

259
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
- Thomas Fuller
1

258
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
- Thomas Fuller
1

257
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
- Thomas Fuller
1

256
It was said of one who preached very well, and lived very ill, "that when he was out of the pulpit it was pity he should ever go into it; and when he was in the pulpit, it was pity he should ever come out of it."
- Thomas Fuller
1

255
Better one's house be too little one day than too big all the year after.
- Thomas Fuller
1

254
He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.
- Thomas Fuller
1

253
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
- Thomas Fuller
1

252
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
- Thomas Fuller
1

251
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
- Thomas Fuller
1

250
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
- Thomas Fuller
1

249
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
- Thomas Fuller
1

248
If you would pass for more than your value, say little. It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
- Thomas Fuller
1

247
You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late.
- Thomas Fuller
1

246
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
- Thomas Fuller
1

245
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
- Thomas Fuller
1

244
Try to be happy in this very present moment; and put not off being so to a time to come; as though that time should be of another make from this, which is already come, and is ours.
- Thomas Fuller
1

243
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
- Thomas Fuller
1

242
Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches.
- Thomas Fuller
1

241
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.
- Thomas Fuller
1

240
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
1





Total Quotes Found: 289