Thomas Fuller

Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

The image of God cut in ebony.

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work.

God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.

Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

Be you never so high the law is above you.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.