Thomas Fuller Quotes

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Thomas Fuller

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : June 19, 1608

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Thomas Fuller

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

Thomas Fuller

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Thomas Fuller

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Thomas Fuller

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Thomas Fuller

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Thomas Fuller

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Thomas Fuller

All doors open to courtesy.

Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.

Thomas Fuller

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Thomas Fuller

A book that is shut is but a block.

Thomas Fuller

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

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

Thomas Fuller