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“5810. Women’s Work is never done.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Women

“5115. 'Tis Self-Conceit, that makes Opinion obstinate.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“5718. Who shall keep the Keepers?”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“2597. Keep thy Judgment to thyself. Why should others know what thou art? or paraphrase upon thy Opinion? Herein thou hast the Advantage of changing thy Mind when thou art mistaken, and yet continue ( for ought others know ) in the same Mind.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Art , Change

“5930. You lay on your Butter, as with a Trowel.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“2018. He set my House afire, only to roast his Eggs.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Pray don't burn my House to roast your Eggs.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Housing

“849. Be as you would seem to be.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1744) : What you would seem to be, be really.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“2033. He talks in the Bear-Garden Tongue.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“6318. Many a Little
Make a Mickle.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : Every little makes a mickle.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“6001. You starve in a Cook's Shop.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Cooking

“3628. No Smoak without some Fire.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“2986. 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.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Death , Soul

“6172. Who so blind as he,
That will not see?”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“2420. He wrongs not an old Man, who steals his Supper from him.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“1048. Call your Husband Cuckold in Jest and he'll ne'er suspect you.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“6401. The Love of a Woman, and a Bottle of Wine,
Are sweet for a Season; but last a short Time.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Love , Wine , Time , Season

“4874. There is a deal of Difference between Love and Gratefulness.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Love

“5085. 'Tis harder to unlearn than learn.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Learning

“6472. Nothing more smooth than Glass, yet nothing more brittle;
Nothing more fine than Wit, yet nothing more fickle.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“812. Argument seldom convinces any one contrary to his Inclinations.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)