Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.”
“A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”
“If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.”
topics: Encouragement
“Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.”
topics: Encouragement
“'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.”
“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.”
“He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.”
“Jars concealed are half reconciled; but if generally known, it is a double task to stop the breach at home and men's mouths abroad.”
topics: Family
“Better one's house be too little one day than too big all the year after.”
topics: Family
“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”
“First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.”
topics: Family
“My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.”
topics: Fathers
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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."