Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654 – 1734)
English physician, writer and adage collector.
There is more pleasure in loving, than in being belov'd.
Cheat me in the Price, but not in the Goods.
Want of Care does us more Damage than want of Knowledge.
There must be two at least to a Quarrel.
Man begins to die before he is born.
When a Thing is done, Advice comes too late.
A Friend in Need
Is a Friend in Deed.
The Fly, that playeth too long in the Candle, singeth her Wings at last.
Vice is its own Punishment, and sometimes its own Cure.
Insolence is Pride, with her Mask pulled off.
Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.
Men are more prone to revengeInjuries, than to requite Kindnesses.
What cannot be cured,
Must be endured.
The eternal Talker neither hears nor learns.
Better have an old Man to humour, than a young Rake to break your Heart.
I took him for a Worm ; but he prov'd a Serpent.
Poverty is not a Shame ; but the being asham'd of it, is.
Men never think their Fortune too great, nor their Wit too little.
Who shall keep the Keepers?