Quotes from Thomas Fuller

Care and diligence bring luck.

Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Enquire not what boils in another's pot.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

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

Let No Limitation be your Limitation.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

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.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

No good workman without good tools.

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