Quotes from Thomas Fuller

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.

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

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Better be alone than in bad company.

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

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

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

The more wit the less courage.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

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

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

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.

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate…. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.