Top 100 Thomas Fuller Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “All things are difficult before they are easy.”

— Thomas Fuller

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2. “It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”

— Thomas Fuller

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3. “Health is not valued till sickness comes.”

— Thomas Fuller

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4. “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ”

— Thomas Fuller

5. “A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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7. “The noblest revenge is to forgive.”

— Thomas Fuller

8. “Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”

— Thomas Fuller

9. “A stumble may prevent a fall.”

— Thomas Fuller

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10. “Great hopes make great men.”

— Thomas Fuller

11. “Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”

— Thomas Fuller

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12. “Get the facts, or the facts will get you.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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14. “It is the property of fools to be always judging.”

— Thomas Fuller

15. “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”

— Thomas Fuller

16. “He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.”

— Thomas Fuller

17. “Good clothes open all doors.”

— Thomas Fuller

18. “Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.”

— Thomas Fuller

19. “Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.”

— Thomas Fuller

20. “Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”

— Thomas Fuller

21. “Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery.”

— Thomas Fuller

22. “He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”

— Thomas Fuller

23. “Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.”

— Thomas Fuller

24. “One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.”

— Thomas Fuller

25. “If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”

— Thomas Fuller

26. “Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.”

— Thomas Fuller

27. “It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.”

— Thomas Fuller

28. “A book that is shut is but a block.”

— Thomas Fuller

29. “All doors open to courtesy.”

— Thomas Fuller

30. “Bad excuses are worse than none.”

— Thomas Fuller

31. “He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.”

— Thomas Fuller

32. “With foxes we must play the fox.”

— Thomas Fuller

33. “Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”

— Thomas Fuller

34. “Better a tooth out than always aching.”

— Thomas Fuller

35. “Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”

— Thomas Fuller

36. “Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”

— Thomas Fuller

37. “A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.”

— Thomas Fuller

38. “Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.”

— Thomas Fuller

39. “He that travels much knows much.”

— Thomas Fuller

40. “In fair weather prepare for foul.”

— Thomas Fuller

41. “There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.”

— Thomas Fuller

42. “If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.”

— Thomas Fuller

43. “The worse the passage the more welcome the port.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

45. “He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”

— Thomas Fuller

46. “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.”

— Thomas Fuller

47. “A good garden may have some weeds.”

— Thomas Fuller

48. “Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.”

— Thomas Fuller

49. “Despair gives courage to a coward.”

— Thomas Fuller

50. “A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.”

— Thomas Fuller

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