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Thomas Fuller
33 quotes
“A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Proverbs (1732), p. 116
“Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) first seen 1639 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of the Holy War (1639), Book I, Ch. 24
“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.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) first seen 1642 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life of Monica (1642)
“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.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) first seen 1642 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life of the Duke of Alva (1642). Compare: "A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay", John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, part i. line 156
“Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Pisgah Sight of Palestine (1650), Book II, ch. XI
“Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) first seen 1655 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Church History of Britain; Book 4, Section 4 (1655)
“There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) first seen 1646 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician (1646), Sect. vi. Par. 18, 1. Compare: "My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall …
“By the same proportion that a penny saved is a penny gained, the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of the Worthies of England (1662) ; Worthies of Huntingtonshire – John Yong
“Many favors which God giveth us ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness; for though prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 579
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of the Worthies of England (1662): Musicians
“He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]hey which play with the devils rattles, will be brought by degrees to wield his sword[.]”
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“One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.”
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“A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lion is not so fierce as painted.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”
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“Deceive not thyself by overexpecting 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.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with such as cannot be angry, and with the Caspian sea never ebbe nor flow. This Anger is either Heavenly, when one is of∣fended for God: or Hellish, when offended with God and Goodnes: or Earthly, in temporal matters. Which Earthly Anger (whereof we treat) may also be Hellish, if for no cause, no great cause, too hot, or too long.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be not angry with any without a cause. If thou beest, thou must not onely, as the Proverb saith, be appeas'd with∣out amends (having neither cost nor damage given thee) but, as our Saviour saith, be in danger of the judgement.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be not mortally angry with any for a venial fault. He will make a strange combustion in the state of his soul, who at the landing of every cockboat sets the beacons on fire. To be angry for every toy debases the worth of thy anger; for he who will be angry for any thing, will be angry for nothing.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let not thy anger be so hot, but that the most torrid zone thereof may be habitable. Fright not people from thy pre∣sence with the terrour of thy intolerable impatience. Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take heed of doing irrevocable acts in thy passion, As the revealing of secrets, which makes thee a bankrupt for society ever after: neither do such things which done once are done for ever, so that no bemoaning can amend them. Sampsons hair grew again, but not his eyes: Time may restore some losses, others are never to be repaird. Wherefore in thy rage make no Persian decree which cannot be revers'd or repeald; but rather Polonian laws which (they say) last but three dayes: Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompence.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies.”
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“Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh 't is cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source