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Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.

We would be cowards if we had courage enough.

A cowards fear can make a coward valiant.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughters my daughter all the days of her life.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

The real difference between men is energy.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Today is yesterdays pupil.

A good marksman may miss.

He thats cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.