If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Quote by Thomas Fuller

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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while...

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while...

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

A good garden may have some weeds.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost.

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

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

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.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get...

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get...

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one...

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one...

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having...

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having...

Waking up with the chickens

Waking up with the chickens

When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it's...

When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it's...