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Thomas Fuller Quotes About Wife

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Thomas Fuller Quotes About Friendship

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

More Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

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

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

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

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

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.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

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