Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy soul: he'll be sure to aggravate thy adversity, and lessen thy prosperity. He goes always heavy loaded; and thou must bear half. He's never in a good humor; and may easily get into a bad one, and fall out with thee.”
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
topics: Friendship
“We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.”
topics: Friendship
“We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.”
topics: Friendship
“As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.”
topics: Giving
“Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice; a princely mind will undo a private family.”
“When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver.”
“Learn to hold thy tongue; five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence.”
“There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.”
“Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness; a fault never found unattended with other viciousness.”
topics: Gratitude
“The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.”
topics: Gratitude
“When our Savior drove the sheep and oxen out of the temple, He did not drive them into His own pasture; nor sweep the coin into His own pockets, when He overturned the table of the money-changers.”
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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."