Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“Riches are long in getting with much pains, hard in keeping with much care, quick in losing with more sorrow.”
topics: Wealth
“Riches may leave us while we live, we must leave them when we die.”
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”
“If you would pass for more than your value, say little. It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.”
topics: Wisdom
“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.”
“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”
“Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.”
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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."