Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.”
topics: Finances
“The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.”
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. He who wants it hath a maimed mind.”
topics: Anger
“The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.”
“Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.”
topics: Anger
“Remember. O my soul, the fig tree was charged, not with bearing noxious fruit, but no fruit.”
topics: Apathy
“Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.”
“An index is a necessary implement, without which a large author is but a labyrinth without a clue to direct the readers within.”
topics: Books
“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”
“Take heed of jesting; many have been ruined by it. It is hard to jest, and not sometimes jeer too, which often sinks deeper than we intended or expected.”
“It is good to make a jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.”
“Make no vows to perform this or that; it shows no great strength, and makes thee ride behind thyself.”
“There are heads sometimes so little, that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.”
topics: Character
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Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen.
His sense of humour kept him from extremes. "By his particular temper and management," said Echard (Hist. of England), "he weathered the late great storm with more success than many other great men." He was known as "a perfect walking library." Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages.. "Wit," wrote Coleridge after reading the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's intellect". Charles Lamb made some selections from Fuller, and admired his "golden works."