A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A good friend is my nearest relation.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A good garden may have some weeds.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A man is not good or bad for one action.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Abused patience turns to fury.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
All things are difficult before they are easy.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Bad excuses are worse than none.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Better a tooth out than always aching.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Better be alone than in bad company.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Care and diligence bring luck.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Despair gives courage to a coward.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Eaten bread is forgotten.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Great hopes make great men.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are fatted for destruction, thou art dieted for health.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
In fair Weather prepare for foul.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Old foxes want no tutors.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Pride will spit in pride's face.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Suspect all extraneous and groundless civilities.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
The more wit the less courage.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
They that buy an office must sell something.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Today is yesterday's pupil.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
We have all forgot more than we remember.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
With foxes we must play the fox.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.