Quotes from Thomas Fuller

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

He is idle that might be better employed.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Be you never so high, the law is above you.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

Sickness is felt, but health not at all.

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. ... Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.

The image of God cut in ebony.

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.

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

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

None can pray well but he that lives well.