Quotes from Thomas Fuller

With foxes we must play the fox.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

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

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

A good life is the only religion.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

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

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

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.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

All doors open to courtesy.

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

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

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

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

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