Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Thomas Fuller

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fuller

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Thomas Fuller

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Thomas Fuller

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.

Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fuller

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller

Better be alone than in bad company.

Thomas Fuller

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Thomas Fuller

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.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Thomas Fuller

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Thomas Fuller

The more wit the less courage.

Thomas Fuller

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

Thomas Fuller

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Thomas Fuller

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Thomas Fuller

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Thomas Fuller

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Thomas Fuller

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

Thomas Fuller