Thomas Fuller (writer) - Man Quotes

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Learn the art of Silence ; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.

Thomas Fuller
A prudent and discreet Silence will be sometimes more to thy Advantage, than the most witty expression, or even the best contrived Sincerity. A Man often repents that he has spoken, but seldom that he has held his Tongue.

Thomas Fuller
Two things a Man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Thomas Fuller
Report not an ill Thing that thou thy self knowest not, but by the Report of a Man, who may lie or aggravate the Matter.

Thomas Fuller
See that thou be always a doing of something, and be ever ashamed to catch thyself idle : The idle man is content to anticipate Death, by being out of Motion; but high Souls, like the Heaven they come from, move continually, and are incapable of Rest, until they rest there.

Thomas Fuller
Drunkenness turns a Man out of himself, and leaves a Beast in his room.

Thomas Fuller
Make not a Jest of another Man's Infirmity. Remember thy own.

Thomas Fuller
A Man among Children will be long a Child, a Child among Men will be soon a Man.

Thomas Fuller
Suffer a Friend to reprove thee, and thank him heartily for it : 'Tis a Happiness for a Man that he can be reproved when he does amiss, and be recalled when he runs wrong. Princes are deprived of that Benefit : for they converse familiarly but with very few Persons, and those make it their only Business to humour them.

Thomas Fuller
Early to go to Bed, and early to rise,
Will make a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.

Thomas Fuller
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Thomas Fuller
When a Man is set upon his own Ruin, 'tis in vain to reason with him.

Thomas Fuller