Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654 – 1734)
English physician, writer and adage collector.
He that lives on Hope, has but a slender diet.
'Tis better to suffer Wrong, than to do it.
There are no Coxcombs so troublesome, as those that have some Wit.
Look not a given Horse in the Mouth.
Avoid Men that are Hot and Quarrelsome ; they will affront thee for nothing, and urge Things beyond Reason and Measure. They will bring thee into Troubles, which thou wilt not easily get out of. Keeping Company with such is living with Wolves, Bears, and Tygers.
No Fool like the old Fool.
They agree like Bells ; they want nothing but hanging.
Money, like Dung, does no Good till ’tis spread.
That Patient is not like to recover, that makes the Doctor his Heir.
You may know by a Handful the whole Sack.
Honesty is the best Policy.
Many a Little
Make a Mickle.
If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.
When the Cat is away,
The Mice may play.
'Tis the last Feather, that breaks the Horse’s Back.
An Hour may destroy what an Age was a building.
Thou knowest not thy own Strength for want of trying it, and upon that Account thinkest thyself really unable to do many Things which Experience would convince thee, thou hast more Ability to effect, than thou hast Will to attempt.
Let him fry in his own Grease.
Nice Eaters seldom meet with a good Dinner.
For want of a Nail the Shoe is lost ; for want of a Shoe the Horse is lost ; for want of a Horse the Man is lost.