Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654 – 1734)
English physician, writer and adage collector.
The Memory of a Benefit soon vanisheth ; but the Remembrance of an Injury sticketh fast in the Heart.
Enough's as good as a Feast.
To borrow upon Usury, bringeth on Beggary.
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.
A Man apt to promise, is apt to forget.
He is not laughed at, that laughs at himself first.
Make the best of a bad Bargain.
Antiquity cannot privilege an Error, nor Novelty prejudice a Truth.
Half a Loaf is better than no Bread.
Command your Wealth, else that will command you.
Measure thrice, and cut once.
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.
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.
Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.
'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.