Thomas Fuller

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

“Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.”

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

“Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, r...”

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

“Care and diligence bring luck.”

“Change of weather is the discourse of fools.”

“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.”

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

“Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.”

“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”

“Eaten bread is forgotten.”

“Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.”

“Bad excuses are worse than none.”

“We have all forgot more than we remember.”

“In fair weather prepare for foul.”

“A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.”

“With foxes we must play the fox.”

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

“Abused patience turns to fury.”