Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654 – 1734)
English physician, writer and adage collector.
I will not touch her with a Pair of Tongs.
Hope is as cheap as Despair.
When a Man is set upon his own Ruin, 'tis in vain to reason with him.
If you run after two Hares, you will catch neither.
You can't eat your Cake, and have it too.
To cast Oyl into the Fire, is not the Way to quench it.
He that scattereth Thorns, must not go Barefoot.
Beware of no Man more than thy self.
Two Dogs fight for a Bone, and a third runs away with it.
Every one is for denying, extenuating, or throwing the Blame on others, and never will confess a Fault, and take it upon himself ; but this, instead of getting it excused and pardoned aggravates it, and makes it worse, and angers the Party concerned, and so it doth Mischief instead of Good. I advise therefore (unless it be a furious, unforgiving Person, and the Thing be a Crime that must not be owned) frankly to own it, to shew how thou wast brought into it, and wish thou hadst not done it. It's likely this ingenuous dealing and throwing thyself upon his Kindness, may work upon his good Nature, and so the storm may pass off without more Mischief ; but this must be managed artfully in a middle Way between Sneaking and Arrogancy.
He that hath a Head of Wax, must not walk in the Sun.
Search not a Wound too deep, lest thou make a new one.
Sauce for a Goose, is Sauce for a Gander.
A Man among Children will be long a Child, a Child among Men will be soon a Man.
The Cart before the Horse.
Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.
That, which proves too much, proves nothing.
If I leave thee a moderate Fortune, as my Father left me, and thou provest wise and virtuous, it will be sufficient. It's none of the least of God's Favours, that Wealth comes not trolling in upon us ; for many of us should have been worse, if our Estates had been better.
Report not an ill Thing that thou thy self knowest not, but by the Report of a Man, who may lie or aggravate the Matter.
Fine Cloth is never out of Fashion.