Thomas Fuller
437 quotes
Biography
"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."
"Great hopes make great men."
"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."
"No garden is without its weeds."
"A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial."
"Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat."
"Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body."
"He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it."
"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."
"Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches."
"By the same proportion that a penny saved is a penny gained, the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them."
"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."
"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune."
"He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows."
"She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him."
"[T]hey which play with the devils rattles, will be brought by degrees to wield his sword[.]"
"One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience."
"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
"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."
"They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter."
"Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing."
"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with such as cannot be angry, and with the Caspian sea never ebbe nor flow. This Anger is either Heavenly, when one is of∣fended for God: or Hellish, when offended with God and Goodnes: or Earthly, in temporal matters. Which Earthly Anger (whereof we treat) may also be Hellish, if for no cause, no great cause, too hot, or too long."