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Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicars skirts.

Charity begins at home but should not end there.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

If it were not for hopes the heart would break.

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

A fox should not be on the jury at a gooses trial.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Be you never so high the law is above you.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

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

Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

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

God makes and apparel shapes: but its money that finishes the man.

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work.

The image of God cut in ebony.

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