Thomas Fuller
95 quotations
Virtue is the only true nobility.
Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
Willful waste brings woeful want.
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
The more wit the less courage.
All doors open to courtesy.
Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
With foxes we must play the fox.