70 Quotes By Thomas Fuller


Better be alone than in bad company.
Thomas Fuller on alone

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Thomas Fuller on anger

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Thomas Fuller on anger

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller on architecture

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.
Thomas Fuller on art

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller on art

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller on beauty

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller on best

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Thomas Fuller on best

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thomas Fuller on birthday

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Thomas Fuller on business

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller on change

Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller on courage

The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller on courage

He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Thomas Fuller on fear

Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Thomas Fuller on fear

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller on fear

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller on friendship

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller on friendship