Thomas Fuller, (1654 — 1734) Quotes

None can pray well but he that lives well.

Spill not the morning 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.

Constant popping off of proverbs will make thee a byword thyself.

He is poor indeed who can promise nothing.

He that has one eye is a prince among those who have none.

Nothing is so difficult but it may be won by industry.

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

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, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young.

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.