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| Thomas Fuller
'Tis not every question that deserves an answer. A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. A good friend is my nearest relation. A good garden may have some weeds. A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. A man is not good or bad for one action. A small demerit extinguishes a long service. A wise man turns chance into good fortune. Abused patience turns to fury. Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm. All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. All things are difficult before they are easy. Always set a thief to catch a thief. An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. At a good table we may go to school.Bacchus (Greek god of wine) hath drowned more men than Neptune. Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. Bad excuses are worse than none. Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money. Better a tooth out than always aching. Better be alone than in bad company. Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after. But our captain counts the image of God – nevertheless his image – cut in ebony as if done in ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of Heaven. Care and diligence bring luck. Change of weather is the discourse of fools. Charity begins at home, but should not end there. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. Danger past, God is forgotten.Despair gives courage to a coward. Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. Eaten bread is forgotten. Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest. Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. Get the facts, or the facts will get you. and when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong. Great hopes make great men.Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much. He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none. He that hopes no good fears no ill. He that wants hope is the poorest man alive. He that would have fruit must climb the tree. He that's cheated twice by the same Man is an accomplice with the Cheater. He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. He whose belly is full believes not him whose belly is empty.If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are fatted for destruction, thou art dieted for health. If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. If you have one true friend you have more than your share. In fair Weather prepare for foul. It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame. 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. Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched. Light (God's eldest daughter) is a principal beauty in building. Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. Nothing is easy to the unwilling. Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high. Old foxes want no tutors. One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience. One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. Poor men's reasons are not heard. Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. Pride will spit in pride's face. Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. Scalded cats fear even cold water. She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all. Suspect all extraneous and groundless civilities. That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. The fool wanders, a wise man travels. The lion is not so fierce as painted. The more wit the less courage. The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. They that buy an office must sell something. They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. Today is yesterday's pupil. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks. We have all forgot more than we remember. We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. |
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