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Quotations By Thomas Fuller


Ability
'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

Animals
The scalded cat fears even cold water.

Business
Business is the salt of life.

Chance
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Friendship
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Friendship
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D.

Happiness
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Honesty
All truth is not to be told at all times. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D.

Hope
Great hopes make great men. -- Thomas Fuller

Husband
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. -- Thomas Fuller

Love
Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Marriage
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Marriage
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Necessity
Necessity dispenseth with decorum. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D.