| 119 Famous Quotes by Thomas Fuller
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“Bad excuses are worse than none”
Apologies Quotes |
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“Birth is the beginning of death”
Birth Quotes |
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“A good horse should be seldom spurred”
Horses Quotes |
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“Better lose a jest than a friend”
Jest Quotes |
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“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife”
Wives Quotes |
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“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
Wives Quotes |
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“An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Gnomologia
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“All those must such delights expect to share,
Who for their friend think fit to take a bear.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Gnomologia
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“Out of mind, when out of view.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Gnomologia
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“Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Gnomologia
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“When yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Gnomologia
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“Who dainties love shall beggars prove.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Gnomologia
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“Much matter decocted into few words.”
Proverbs (general) Quotes Source: Definition of a proverb--Worthies (ch. II)
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“He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.”
Wives Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States (maxim VII, The Good Husband)
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“Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit,
and a rich monument is one embroidered.”
Monuments Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Tombs)
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“A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their
birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race
of their lives.”
Folly Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Natural Fools (maxim IV)
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“A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all
actions shooting at his own praise or profit.”
Hypocrisy Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--The Hypocrite (maxim I, bk. V, ch. VIII)
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“He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.”
Failure Quotes Source: Medicina Gymnastica (vol. X, p, 7)
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“It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.”
Libraries Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Books (maxim 1)
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“It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring
considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.”
Labor Quotes Source: Pisgah--Sight of Palestine (ed. 1650, p. 128)
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“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less
competition there.”
Labor Quotes Source: Pisgah--Sight of Palestine (ed. 1650, p. 128)
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“He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman,
laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought
to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--Apparel
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“He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul,
biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a
passage through it.”
Appearance Quotes Source: Life of the Duke of Alva
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“Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot
shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous
curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the
appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.”
Memory Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Memory)
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“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.”
Anger Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--Anger
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