Thomas Fuller ( 10 of 107 )
Better lose a jest than a friend
Better lose a jest than a friend
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of read more
Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240 He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.
Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands read more
Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.
He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.
He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will read more
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, read more
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring
considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring
considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
