J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

Don't fight forces use them.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

A good life fears not life nor death.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

A house is a machine for living.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

We would be cowards if we had courage enough.

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

The real difference between men is energy.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

A good marksman may miss.

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

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

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.

They are rich who have true friends.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

Charity begins at home but should not end there.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.