Thomas Fuller
95 quotations
Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
The more laws, the more offenders.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Soft words are hard arguments.
If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
We have all forgot more than we remember.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.