Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.”
topics: Finances
“He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.”
“A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.”
“'Tis better that thou be rather something sparing, than very liberal, to even a good servant; for as he grows full, he inclines either to be idle, or to leave thee: and if he should at any time murmur, thou mayest govern him by a seasonable reward.”
“Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.”
topics: Encouragement
“If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.”
topics: Encouragement
“A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”
“Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.”
“Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.”
topics: Discretion
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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."