271 Quotes by thomas fuller

Get the facts, or the facts will get you.

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

Nothing costs so much as what is given us.

A forced kindness deserves no thanks.

Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.

Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.

Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery.