Thomas Fuller Quotes

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

Health is just not valued until illness comes.

Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

Try to be happy in this 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 has already come and is ours.

Danger past, God is forgotten.

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

Good is not good, where better is expected.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

Good is not good where better is expected.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

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.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

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.