Quotes By Thomas Fuller

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

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

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

He that travels much knows much.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Old foxes want no tutors.

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.

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

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Great hopes make great men.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

With foxes we must play the fox.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.