Quotes By Thomas Fuller

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.

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

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.

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

A good garden may have some weeds.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

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.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Old foxes want no tutors.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Great hopes make great men.