Beruf | Historiker, Schriftsteller |
Geburtsdatum | |
Geburtsort | Aldwinkle St Peter's, Northamptonshire, England |
Todesdatum | Dienstag, 16. August 1661 |
Todesort | Covent Garden |
Sternzeichen | |
Beschreibung | Thomas Fuller (getauft am 19. Juni 1608 - 16. August 1661) war ein englischer Kirchenmann und Historiker. Heute ist er vor allem für seine Schriften bekannt, insbesondere für seine Worthies of England, die 1662, nach seinem Tod, veröffentlicht wurden. Er war ein produktiver Autor und einer der ersten englischen Schriftsteller, der von seiner Feder (und seinen zahlreichen Gönnern) leben konnte. |
Great hopes make great men.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
The more wit the less courage.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Better be alone than in bad company.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
