Thomas Fuller Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”

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

“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, retain nothing.”

“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”

“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”

“If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.”

“A good garden may have some weeds.”

“There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.”

“Bad excuses are worse than none.”

“With foxes we must play the fox.”