Thomas Fuller Quotes

 

"Eaten bread is forgotten."

"All doors open to courtesy."

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."

"Bad excuses are worse than none."

"Scalded cats fear even cold water."

"Despair gives courage to a coward."

"A good friend is my nearest relation."

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

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

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

"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."

"He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows."

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

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

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

"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves."

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

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

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

"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."

 

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com

 

 

 

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