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Born in 1608 / Died in August 16, 1661 / United Kingdom / English

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
He that travels much knows much.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
A good friend is my nearest relation.