Thomas Fuller

The more laws, the more offenders.
Thomas Fuller

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Thomas Fuller

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
Thomas Fuller

When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
Thomas Fuller

Soft words are hard arguments.
Thomas Fuller

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
Thomas Fuller

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Thomas Fuller

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
Thomas Fuller

Prospect is often better than possession.
Thomas Fuller

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
Thomas Fuller

Debt is the worst poverty.
Thomas Fuller

Willful waste brings woeful want.
Thomas Fuller

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Thomas Fuller

If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
Thomas Fuller

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
Thomas Fuller

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
Thomas Fuller

The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
Thomas Fuller

A man surprised is half beaten.
Thomas Fuller

Good clothes open all doors.
Thomas Fuller

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
Thomas Fuller

He is rich that is satisfied.
Thomas Fuller

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Thomas Fuller

He teaches me to be good that does me good.
Thomas Fuller

Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
Thomas Fuller

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

Good is not good, when better is expected.
Thomas Fuller

A generous confession disarms slander.
Thomas Fuller

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Thomas Fuller

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
Thomas Fuller

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
Thomas Fuller

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
Thomas Fuller

Lavishness is not generosity.
Thomas Fuller

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
Thomas Fuller

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

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Thomas Fuller

The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Thomas Fuller

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Thomas Fuller

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
Thomas Fuller

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

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

A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller

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

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
Thomas Fuller