Thomas Fuller Quotes

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Thomas Fuller

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : June 19, 1608

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Thomas Fuller

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Thomas Fuller

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Thomas Fuller

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Thomas Fuller

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Thomas Fuller

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Thomas Fuller

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Thomas Fuller

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Thomas Fuller

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

Thomas Fuller

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Thomas Fuller

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Thomas Fuller

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Thomas Fuller

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

Thomas Fuller

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Thomas Fuller

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Thomas Fuller