Logo
Quote by Thomas Fuller
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. - Thom

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. – Thomas Fuller

Other quotes by Thomas Fuller

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

Category:
God
Author
Thomas Fuller
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Miscellaneous
category

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. – Voltaire, 1767

Category:
Miscellaneous

Probably the most honest “self-made man” ever was the one we heard say: “I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.” – James Thom

Category:
Miscellaneous

We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Pulvis et umbra,” 1888

Category:
Miscellaneous

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

Category:
Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. – Arabic Proverb

Category:
Charity

Eloquence is the poetry of prose. – William C. Bryant

Category:
Poetry

Perfection is the child of time. – Joseph Hall

Category:
Time

My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what youd serve a vampire for dinner. – Deborah Harkness

Category:
cool