He is poor indeed that can promise nothing

Quote by Thomas Fuller

Topics: Commitment Quotes, Poverty Quotes

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Great hopes make great men.

Great hopes make great men.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Better lose a jest than a friend

Better lose a jest than a friend

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

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

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

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

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

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

We have all forgot more than we remember

We have all forgot more than we remember

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

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...

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Lawyers would have a hard time making a living if people behaved themselves and kept...

Lawyers would have a hard time making a living if people behaved themselves and kept...

He that knows least commonly presumes most

He that knows least commonly presumes most

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually...

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually...

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above...

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above...