Quotes from Thomas Fuller

Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

Old foxes want no tutors.

A good life fears not life, nor death.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

A good marksman may miss.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.