Quotes from Thomas Fuller

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

The more wit the less courage.

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

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

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

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.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

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

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

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

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

Better a tooth out than always aching.

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.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Trust thyself only and another shall not betray thee.

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

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

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

He that travels much knows much.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.