The voices / 155 fragments

Thomas Fuller

1608 AD — 1661 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

Author and source reference ↗

▷ Play this voice Search within this voice ↗Place in time ↗death mind happiness faith learning nature time wisdom

Historical source references

Life of Monica
Life of the Duke of Alva
Holy and Profane State
Andronicus
History · anthology attribution: Thomas Fuller
Time · anthology attribution: Thomas Fuller
Printed citation: Thomas Fuller
Page 172 · printed citation: Thomas Fuller

Archive entries

01c. 1634 AD

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

02c. 1634 AD

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

03c. 1634 AD

She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

04c. 1634 AD

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

05c. 1634 AD

One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

06c. 1634 AD

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

07c. 1634 AD

But our captain counts the image of God—nevertheless his image—cut in ebony as if done in ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of Heaven.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

08c. 1634 AD

To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

09c. 1634 AD

The lion is not so fierce as painted.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

10c. 1634 AD

Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

11c. 1634 AD

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

12c. 1634 AD

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

13c. 1634 AD

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

14c. 1634 AD

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

15c. 1634 AD

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

16Undated

History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs,—privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

17Undated

He is a good time-server that improves the present for God's glory and his own salvation.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

18Undated

Is there no way to bring home a wandering sheep but by worrying him to death?

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

19Undated

Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

20Undated

He had catched a great cold, had he had no other clothes to wear than the skin of a bear not yet killed.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

21Undated

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

22Undated

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

23Undated

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

24Undated

Danger past, God is forgotten.

Thomas Fuller / quote

↗

Thomas Fuller

Archive entries

Read further

Meditations

Tao Te Ching

Confessions