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Absence
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
-Thomas Fuller
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Advice
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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
-Thomas Fuller
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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
-Thomas Fuller
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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
-Thomas Fuller
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Anger
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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
-Thomas Fuller
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
-Thomas Fuller
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
-Thomas Fuller
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Appearance
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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
-Thomas Fuller
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Appreciation
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He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
-Thomas Fuller
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Architecture
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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
-Thomas Fuller
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Argument & Debate
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Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
-Thomas Fuller
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When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
-Thomas Fuller
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Soft words are hard arguments.
-Thomas Fuller
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Belief
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
-Thomas Fuller
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Bravery
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The more wit the less courage.
-Thomas Fuller
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Chance
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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
-Thomas Fuller
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Charity
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Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
-Thomas Fuller
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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
-Thomas Fuller
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Class
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
-Thomas Fuller
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Contentment
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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
-Thomas Fuller
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Control
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Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
-Thomas Fuller
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Creation
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Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
-Thomas Fuller
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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Debt is the worst poverty.
-Thomas Fuller
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Despair
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Despair gives courage to a coward.
-Thomas Fuller
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Determination
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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
-Thomas Fuller
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Books by and about Thomas Fuller