Thomas Fuller

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

All doors open to courtesy.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

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

Today is yesterday's pupil.

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

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.