One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller

Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Thomas Fuller

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller

Pride will spit in pride's face.
Thomas Fuller

Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Thomas Fuller

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
Thomas Fuller

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
Thomas Fuller

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Thomas Fuller

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller

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

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Thomas Fuller

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
Thomas Fuller

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
Thomas Fuller

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Thomas Fuller

Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller