Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654 – 1734)
English physician, writer and adage collector.
See that thou be alway a doing of something, and be ever ashamed to catch thyself idle : The idle man is content to anticipate Death, by being out of Motion ; but high Souls, like the Heaven they come from, move continually, and are uncapable of Rest, until they rest there.
Measure thrice, and cut once.
You must plow with such Oxen as you have.
Have a Care of him that is slow to anger, for like as green Wood which is long in kindling, continueth hot longer than the dry, if it have once taken Fire : So that Man, who is not easily moved is more hard to be pacify'd, than he that is quickly provoked.
Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.
Home is home, be it never so homely.
'Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so : Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary.
He's a Friend to none, that is a Friend to all.
Command your Wealth, else that will command you.
Half a Loaf is better than no Bread.
Antiquity cannot privilege an Error, nor Novelty prejudice a Truth.
Make the best of a bad Bargain.
He is not laughed at, that laughs at himself first.
A Man apt to promise, is apt to forget.
All of us forget more than we remember, and therefore it hath been my constant Custom to note down and record whatever I thought of myself, or receiv'd from Men, or Books worth preserving. Among other things, I wrote out Apothegms, Maxims, Proverbs, acute Expressions, vulgar Sayings, &c. And having at length collected more than ever any Englishman has before me, I have ventur'd to send them forth, to try their Fortune among the People.
To borrow upon Usury, bringeth on Beggary.
Enough's as good as a Feast.
The Memory of a Benefit soon vanisheth ; but the Remembrance of an Injury sticketh fast in the Heart.
The Passions are like Fire and Water ; good Servants, but bad Masters.