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Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood out of it.


Thomas Fuller

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The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.
THOMAS FULLER He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
FULLER THOMAS God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
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THOMAS FULLER Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
THOMAS FULLER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals t...
THOMAS FULLER There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in t...
THOMAS FULLER Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
THOMAS FULLER Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
THOMAS FULLER Today is yesterday's pupil.
THOMAS FULLER Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
THOMAS FULLER He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
THOMAS FULLER Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
THOMAS FULLER Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of...
THOMAS FULLER Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed o...
THOMAS FULLER We have all forgot more than we remember.
THOMAS FULLER A good garden may have some weeds.
THOMAS FULLER A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
THOMAS FULLER Poor men's reasons are not heard.
THOMAS FULLER It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
THOMAS FULLER All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
THOMAS FULLER With foxes we must play the fox.
THOMAS FULLER All doors open to courtesy.
THOMAS FULLER Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
THOMAS FULLER Old foxes want no tutors.
THOMAS FULLER Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
THOMAS FULLER The more laws, the more offenders.
THOMAS FULLER Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
THOMAS FULLER Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in m...
THOMAS FULLER When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife co...
THOMAS FULLER Soft words are hard arguments.
THOMAS FULLER He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
THOMAS FULLER Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
THOMAS FULLER Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
THOMAS FULLER Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
THOMAS FULLER A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
THOMAS FULLER Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
THOMAS FULLER He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
THOMAS FULLER An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
THOMAS FULLER He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
THOMAS FULLER The more wit the less courage.
THOMAS FULLER Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
THOMAS FULLER He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
THOMAS FULLER Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
THOMAS FULLER An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...
THOMAS FULLER One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
THOMAS FULLER Debt is the worst poverty.
THOMAS FULLER Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last ...
THOMAS FULLER Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wr...
THOMAS FULLER Prospect is often better than possession.
THOMAS FULLER Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
THOMAS FULLER Great and good are seldom the same man.
THOMAS FULLER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
THOMAS FULLER Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
THOMAS FULLER Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
THOMAS FULLER Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
THOMAS FULLER A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
THOMAS FULLER The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
THOMAS FULLER Good clothes open all doors.
THOMAS FULLER Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
THOMAS FULLER Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
THOMAS FULLER A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
THOMAS FULLER A man is not good or bad for one action.
THOMAS FULLER Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
THOMAS FULLER He is rich that is satisfied.
THOMAS FULLER A man surprised is half beaten.
THOMAS FULLER A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
THOMAS FULLER Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed.
THOMAS FULLER In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
THOMAS FULLER He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
THOMAS FULLER Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
THOMAS FULLER Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
THOMAS FULLER Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious...
THOMAS FULLER A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
THOMAS FULLER The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
THOMAS FULLER Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
THOMAS FULLER Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
THOMAS FULLER Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
THOMAS FULLER If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
THOMAS FULLER Bad excuses are worse than none.
THOMAS FULLER Willful waste brings woeful want.
THOMAS FULLER He teaches me to be good that does me good.
THOMAS FULLER What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
THOMAS FULLER A generous confession disarms slander.
THOMAS FULLER The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
THOMAS FULLER Despair gives courage to a coward.
THOMAS FULLER It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
THOMAS FULLER Lavishness is not generosity.
THOMAS FULLER When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances.
THOMAS FULLER Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full...
THOMAS FULLER If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
THOMAS FULLER Good is not good, when better is expected.
THOMAS FULLER Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in dis...
THOMAS FULLER A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
THOMAS FULLER Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
THOMAS FULLER He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
THOMAS FULLER Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
THOMAS FULLER He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
THOMAS FULLER Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
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 Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
THOMAS FULLER Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, a...
THOMAS FULLER He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters....
THOMAS FULLER Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
THOMAS FULLER A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
THOMAS FULLER Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
THOMAS FULLER He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
THOMAS FULLER A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
THOMAS FULLER He that fears you present will hate you absent.
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THOMAS FULLER Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered on...
THOMAS FULLER The noblest revenge is to forgive.
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THOMAS FULLER A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER Fools grow without watering.
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THOMAS FULLER It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.
THOMAS FULLER A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their dea...
THOMAS FULLER He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER Much matter decocted into few words.
THOMAS FULLER Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
THOMAS FULLER Birth is the beginning of death
THOMAS FULLER Bad excuses are worse than none
THOMAS FULLER Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute kein...
THOMAS FULLER He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.
THOMAS FULLER Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
THOMAS FULLER It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
THOMAS FULLER The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
THOMAS FULLER A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
THOMAS FULLER Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.
THOMAS FULLER Too good for great things and too great for good.
THOMAS FULLER Virtue is the only true nobility.
THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
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THOMAS FULLER Better lose a jest than a friend
THOMAS FULLER Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun ...
THOMAS FULLER Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
THOMAS FULLER He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
THOMAS FULLER Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you ...
THOMAS FULLER He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
THOMAS FULLER Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
THOMAS FULLER Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
THOMAS FULLER A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
THOMAS FULLER One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
THOMAS FULLER Better a tooth out than always aching.
THOMAS FULLER Care and diligence bring luck.
THOMAS FULLER Health is not valued till sickness comes.
THOMAS FULLER There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
THOMAS FULLER 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
THOMAS FULLER A good horse should be seldom spurred.
THOMAS FULLER A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
THOMAS FULLER We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
THOMAS FULLER He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has n...
THOMAS FULLER Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
THOMAS FULLER Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and...
THOMAS FULLER If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
THOMAS FULLER Great hopes make great men.
THOMAS FULLER We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
THOMAS FULLER Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
THOMAS FULLER If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
THOMAS FULLER If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
THOMAS FULLER Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the comm...
THOMAS FULLER Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
THOMAS FULLER There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
THOMAS FULLER Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.
THOMAS FULLER Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
THOMAS FULLER Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroid...
THOMAS FULLER The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
THOMAS FULLER If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
THOMAS FULLER He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.
THOMAS FULLER Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.
THOMAS FULLER No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.
THOMAS FULLER Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
THOMAS FULLER He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.
THOMAS FULLER Light (God's eldest daughter!)
THOMAS FULLER He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
THOMAS FULLER A good horse should be seldom spurred
THOMAS FULLER To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cord...
THOMAS FULLER He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
THOMAS FULLER Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distr...
THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
THOMAS FULLER Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
THOMAS FULLER Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
THOMAS FULLER If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know y...
THOMAS FULLER If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
THOMAS FULLER If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
THOMAS FULLER He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.
THOMAS FULLER Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
THOMAS FULLER Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hea...
THOMAS FULLER Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
THOMAS FULLER