Thomas Fuller Quotes
1608–1661 England
Thomas Fuller (baptized 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English preacher, historian, and scholar.
- England
- Historians
77 quotes
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.
Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.
The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool.
No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Fuller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.