Top 100 Thomas Fuller Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Abused patience turns to fury.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

53. “With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.”

— Thomas Fuller

54. “He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.”

— Thomas Fuller

55. “Scalded cats fear even cold water.”

— Thomas Fuller

56. “No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.”

— Thomas Fuller

57. “Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.”

— Thomas Fuller

58. “Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

60. “You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.”

— Thomas Fuller

61. “Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.”

— Thomas Fuller

62. “Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”

— Thomas Fuller

63. “A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”

— Thomas Fuller

64. “Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.”

— Thomas Fuller

65. “Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

67. “A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.”

— Thomas Fuller

68. “If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”

— Thomas Fuller

69. “A wise man turns chance into good fortune.”

— Thomas Fuller

70. “Change of weather is the discourse of fools.”

— Thomas Fuller

71. “If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”

— Thomas Fuller

72. “Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”

— Thomas Fuller

73. “Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.”

— Thomas Fuller

74. “A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.”

— Thomas Fuller

75. “The more wit the less courage.”

— Thomas Fuller

76. “A good horse should be seldom spurred.”

— Thomas Fuller

77. “Eaten bread is forgotten.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

79. “Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.”

— Thomas Fuller

80. “A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.”

— Thomas Fuller

81. “Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear.”

— Thomas Fuller

82. “We have all forgot more than we remember.”

— Thomas Fuller

83. “He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.”

— Thomas Fuller

84. “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.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

86. “Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”

— Thomas Fuller

87. “A good friend is my nearest relation.”

— Thomas Fuller

88. “The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

90. “First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.”

— Thomas Fuller

91. “Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.”

— Thomas Fuller

92. “Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.”

— Thomas Fuller

93. “He that hopes no good fears no ill.”

— Thomas Fuller

94. “A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.”

— Thomas Fuller

95. “A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.”

— Thomas Fuller

96. “Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.”

— Thomas Fuller

97. “We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”

— Thomas Fuller

98. “The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.”

— Thomas Fuller

99. “Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.”

— Thomas Fuller

100. “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