Thomas Fuller Quotes
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh 't is cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
A proverb is much matter decocted into few words.
He will make a strange combustion in the state of his soul, who at the landing of every cockboat sets the beacons on fire.
Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompense.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
