Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654 – 1734)
English physician, writer and adage collector.
A Stitch in Time
May save nine.
Antiquity is not always a Mark of Verity.
God sends Meat, and the Devil sends Cooks.
We have all forgot more, than we remember.
Children and Fools tell Truth.
Let thy Vices die before thee.
As the best Wine makes the sharpest Vinegar, so the deepest Love turns to the deadliest Hatred.
Provoke not even a patient Man too far ; extreme Sufferance when it comes to dissolve, breaks out into the most severe Revenge ; for taking Fire at last, Anger and Fury being combined into one, discharge their utmost Force at the first Blast. Irarumque omnes effundit habenas.
'Tis harder to unlearn than learn.
The longest Day must have an End.
It is often easier to make new, than to cobble up the old.
It is not a sign of Humility to declaim against Pride.
He knows which Side of his Bread is butter'd.
Necessity dispenseth with Decorum.
Valour would fight, but Discretion would run away.
You must not hope to reap Wheat, where you sow'd none.
The Ebb will fetch off, what the Tide brings in.
Idleness makes the Wit rust.