Quotes from Thomas Fuller

The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth.

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

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

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

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

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

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

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

The more laws the more offenders.

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

Abused patience turns to fury.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

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

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.