Quotes from Thomas Fuller

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

New Grief awakens the old.

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

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

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

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Debt is the worst poverty.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Good is not good where better is expected

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

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

Great hopes make great men.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.