All things are difficult before they were easy

Quote by Thomas Fuller

Topics: Difficulty Quotes

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo...

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo...

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

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

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an...

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an...

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night

All the molestations of marriage are abundantly recompensed with the other comforts which God bestoweth...

All the molestations of marriage are abundantly recompensed with the other comforts which God bestoweth...

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but...

Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but...

What a day may bring, a day may take away

What a day may bring, a day may take away

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

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

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

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

Journalists are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to...

Journalists are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to...