Quotes from Thomas Fuller

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

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

What children hear at home soon flies abroad

Birth is the beginning of death

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

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

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

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

Cheaters must get some credit before they can cozen, and all falsehood, if not founded in some truth, would not be fixed in any belief.

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty.

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

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

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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

A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves.