Inspiring Quotes by Thomas Fuller - Page 2

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"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame"

"The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest"

"Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all"

"The more wit the less courage"

"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed"

"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks"

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help"

"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"

"Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart"

"Poor men's reasons are not heard"

"Care and diligence bring luck"

"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire"

"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity"

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

"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"

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him"

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery"

"Abused patience turns to fury"

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

"All things are difficult before they are easy"

"All doors open to courtesy"

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul"

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

"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing"

"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter"

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

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong"

"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife"

"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"

"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it"

"Better be alone than in bad company"

"Better a tooth out than always aching"

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

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into"

"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time"

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