Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
“Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.”
“The affections, like conscience, are rather to be led than driven. Those who many where they do not love, will be likely to love where they do not marry.”
topics: Love
“Our eyes, when gazing on sinful objects, are out of their calling, and out of God's keeping.”
topics: Lust
“Hold not conference, debate, or reasoning with any lust; 'tis but a preparatory for thy admission of it. The way is at the very first flatly to deny it.”
topics: Lust
“A willful falsehood told is a cripple, not able to stand by itself without another to support it. It is easy to tell a lie, but hard to tell only one lie.”
topics: Lying
“If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.”
“Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married state. Look not therein for contentment greater than God will give, or a creature in this world can receive, namely, to be free from all inconveniences. Marriage is not like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds.”
“All the molestations of marriage are abundantly recompensed with the other comforts which God bestoweth on them who make a wise choice of a wife.”
“The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new; as if a gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and, if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is by match.”
topics: Marriage
“Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.”
topics: Marriage
“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
topics: Marriage
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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."