Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.
Thomas Fuller
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KELLY JONES Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement
ERIKA JOHANSEN Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Her suspense was terrible.
THOMAS HARDY Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of...
THOMAS HARDY They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are...
THOMAS HARRIS A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ...
THOMAS HARDY Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
THOMAS HARDY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?
RICK RIORDAN If the conclusions of the arms inspectors are positive and prove that there really is a danger with ...
LOUIS MICHEL The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be...
SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,...
SAINT IGNATIUS The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati...
SAINT IGNATIUS We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ...
SAINT IGNATIUS We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar...
SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w...
SAINT IGNATIUS In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra...
SAINT IGNATIUS Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
SAINT IGNATIUS Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
SAINT IGNATIUS In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
SAINT IGNATIUS For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je...
SAINT IGNATIUS If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
SAINT BERNARD Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a...
SAINT BERNARD Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD
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The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built
many stories high.
THOMAS FULLER He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
FULLER THOMAS God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
THOMAS FULLER Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
THOMAS FULLER Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales whi...
THOMAS FULLER Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
THOMAS FULLER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring
considerable profit, to carry Charcoals t...
THOMAS FULLER There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in t...
THOMAS FULLER Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
THOMAS FULLER Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
THOMAS FULLER Today is yesterday's pupil.
THOMAS FULLER Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
THOMAS FULLER He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
THOMAS FULLER Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
THOMAS FULLER Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of...
THOMAS FULLER Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed o...
THOMAS FULLER We have all forgot more than we remember.
THOMAS FULLER A good garden may have some weeds.
THOMAS FULLER A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
THOMAS FULLER Poor men's reasons are not heard.
THOMAS FULLER It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
THOMAS FULLER All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
THOMAS FULLER With foxes we must play the fox.
THOMAS FULLER All doors open to courtesy.
THOMAS FULLER Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
THOMAS FULLER Old foxes want no tutors.
THOMAS FULLER Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
THOMAS FULLER The more laws, the more offenders.
THOMAS FULLER Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
THOMAS FULLER Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in m...
THOMAS FULLER When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife co...
THOMAS FULLER Soft words are hard arguments.
THOMAS FULLER He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
THOMAS FULLER Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
THOMAS FULLER Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
THOMAS FULLER Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
THOMAS FULLER A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
THOMAS FULLER Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
THOMAS FULLER He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
THOMAS FULLER An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
THOMAS FULLER He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
THOMAS FULLER The more wit the less courage.
THOMAS FULLER Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
THOMAS FULLER He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
THOMAS FULLER Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
THOMAS FULLER An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...
THOMAS FULLER One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
THOMAS FULLER Debt is the worst poverty.
THOMAS FULLER Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last ...
THOMAS FULLER Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wr...
THOMAS FULLER Prospect is often better than possession.
THOMAS FULLER Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
THOMAS FULLER Great and good are seldom the same man.
THOMAS FULLER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
THOMAS FULLER Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
THOMAS FULLER Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
THOMAS FULLER Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
THOMAS FULLER A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
THOMAS FULLER The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
THOMAS FULLER Good clothes open all doors.
THOMAS FULLER Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
THOMAS FULLER Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
THOMAS FULLER A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
THOMAS FULLER A man is not good or bad for one action.
THOMAS FULLER Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
THOMAS FULLER He is rich that is satisfied.
THOMAS FULLER A man surprised is half beaten.
THOMAS FULLER A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
THOMAS FULLER Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed.
THOMAS FULLER In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
THOMAS FULLER He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
THOMAS FULLER Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
THOMAS FULLER Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
THOMAS FULLER Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious...
THOMAS FULLER A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
THOMAS FULLER The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
THOMAS FULLER Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
THOMAS FULLER Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
THOMAS FULLER Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
THOMAS FULLER If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
THOMAS FULLER Bad excuses are worse than none.
THOMAS FULLER Willful waste brings woeful want.
THOMAS FULLER He teaches me to be good that does me good.
THOMAS FULLER What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
THOMAS FULLER A generous confession disarms slander.
THOMAS FULLER The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
THOMAS FULLER Despair gives courage to a coward.
THOMAS FULLER It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
THOMAS FULLER Lavishness is not generosity.
THOMAS FULLER When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances.
THOMAS FULLER Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full...
THOMAS FULLER If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
THOMAS FULLER Good is not good, when better is expected.
THOMAS FULLER Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in dis...
THOMAS FULLER A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
THOMAS FULLER Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
THOMAS FULLER He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
THOMAS FULLER Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
THOMAS FULLER He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
THOMAS FULLER Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
THOMAS FULLER Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
THOMAS FULLER A book that is shut is but a block.
THOMAS FULLER Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
THOMAS FULLER Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, a...
THOMAS FULLER He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman,
laughs at the ratling of his fetters....
THOMAS FULLER Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
THOMAS FULLER A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
THOMAS FULLER Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
THOMAS FULLER He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
THOMAS FULLER A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
THOMAS FULLER He that fears you present will hate you absent.
THOMAS FULLER A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all
actions shooting at his own praise o...
THOMAS FULLER Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered on...
THOMAS FULLER The noblest revenge is to forgive.
THOMAS FULLER Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
THOMAS FULLER Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest
over the threshold thereof.
THOMAS FULLER He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul,
biting for anger at the clog of his bod...
THOMAS FULLER A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER Fools grow without watering.
THOMAS FULLER Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot
shut, all will drop out of it. Take h...
THOMAS FULLER It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.
THOMAS FULLER A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their
birth, and at the post--their dea...
THOMAS FULLER He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER Much matter decocted into few words.
THOMAS FULLER Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
THOMAS FULLER Birth is the beginning of death
THOMAS FULLER Bad excuses are worse than none
THOMAS FULLER Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
[Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute kein...
THOMAS FULLER He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint;
that boasts of it, is a devil.
THOMAS FULLER Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
THOMAS FULLER It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
THOMAS FULLER The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
THOMAS FULLER A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
THOMAS FULLER Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.
THOMAS FULLER Too good for great things and too great for good.
THOMAS FULLER Virtue is the only true nobility.
THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into
Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, t...
THOMAS FULLER Better lose a jest than a friend
THOMAS FULLER Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee,
But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun
...
THOMAS FULLER Thus God's children are immorall whiles their
Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
THOMAS FULLER He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
THOMAS FULLER Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you ...
THOMAS FULLER He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
THOMAS FULLER Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
THOMAS FULLER Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
THOMAS FULLER A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
THOMAS FULLER One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
THOMAS FULLER Better a tooth out than always aching.
THOMAS FULLER Care and diligence bring luck.
THOMAS FULLER Health is not valued till sickness comes.
THOMAS FULLER There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
THOMAS FULLER 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
THOMAS FULLER A good horse should be seldom spurred.
THOMAS FULLER A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
THOMAS FULLER We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
THOMAS FULLER He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has n...
THOMAS FULLER Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
THOMAS FULLER Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and...
THOMAS FULLER If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
THOMAS FULLER Great hopes make great men.
THOMAS FULLER We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
THOMAS FULLER Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
THOMAS FULLER If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
THOMAS FULLER If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
THOMAS FULLER Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the comm...
THOMAS FULLER Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
THOMAS FULLER There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
THOMAS FULLER Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.
THOMAS FULLER Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
THOMAS FULLER Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit,
and a rich monument is one embroid...
THOMAS FULLER The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
THOMAS FULLER If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
THOMAS FULLER He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar
by the bargain.
THOMAS FULLER Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.
THOMAS FULLER No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.
THOMAS FULLER Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
THOMAS FULLER He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.
THOMAS FULLER Light (God's eldest daughter!)
THOMAS FULLER He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
THOMAS FULLER A good horse should be seldom spurred
THOMAS FULLER To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no
less are thoughts of mortality cord...
THOMAS FULLER He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
THOMAS FULLER Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distr...
THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
THOMAS FULLER Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
THOMAS FULLER Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
THOMAS FULLER If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know y...
THOMAS FULLER If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
THOMAS FULLER If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
THOMAS FULLER He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.
THOMAS FULLER Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
THOMAS FULLER Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hea...
THOMAS FULLER Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
THOMAS FULLER