Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654 – 1734)
English physician, writer and adage collector.
With-hold not thy Money, where there is Need ; and waste it not, where there is none.
It is good to have two Strings to one's Bow.
A Man in Passion rides a Horse that runs away with him.
The Fox may grow grey, but never good.
Better eat Salt with Philosophers of Greece, than eat Sugar with Courtezans of Italy.
Out of Sight ; out of Mind.
Your Head's so hot, that your Brains bubble over.
Many would be Cowards if they had Courage enough.
There is but bad Choice , where the whole Stock is bad.
One half of the World wonders how the other lives.
Many would have been worse, if their Estates had been better.
Shew not thyself joyful and pleased at the Misfortunes of any Man, tho' thou hatest him ; It argues a mischevious Mind, and that thou hadst a Desire to have done it thyself, if thou hadst had Power or Opportunity to thy Will.
Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.
He that payeth beforehand, shall have his Work ill done.
A Fool’s Tongue is long enough to cut his own Throat.
Birds of a Feather
Flock together.
Be not always hot, and hasty in managing thy Affairs. Prudent Pauses forward Business : There is sometimes more Skill shewed by a Physician in not Prescribing, than in Prescribing. And there is no better Remedy for some Diseases, than to let them alone : for unseasonable meddling with them, may hinder their proceeding to a Crisis, and at long Run they will mend of themselves.
Tho' all Men were made of one Metal, yet they were not cast all in the same Mould.
Hunger scarce kills any ; but Gluttony and Drunkenness, Multitudes.