Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller was an English preacher, historian, and scholar.
24 quotes.
Quotes by Thomas Fuller
- All things are difficult before they are easy.
- Associate with men of good judgment; for judgment is found in conversation. And we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company.
- Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire; not in multiplying of wealth, but in subtracting men’s desires.
- Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirits.
- He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.
- He that falls into sin is a man, that grieves at it is a saint, that boasteth of it is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls.
- He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, may be a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
- He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. Yet some think their conceits, like mustard, not good except they bite.
- He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.
- If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
- If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
- Many favors which God giveth us ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness; for though prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them.
- Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
- Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.
- Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
- Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices.
- Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
- 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.
- Thou oughtest to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.
- Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.
- 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.
- When our hopes break, let our patience hold.
- Wit should be used as a shield for defence rather than as a sword to wound others.
- You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late.