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Thomas Fuller, M.D. was a British physician, preacher and intellectual.

Fuller was born in Rosehill, Sussex, and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He practised medicine at Sevenoaks.

In 1723 he published Pharmacopoeia Domestica, and in 1730 Exanthematologia, Or, An Attempt to Give a Rational Account of Eruptive Fevers, Especially of the Measles and Small Pox. In 1732 he published a compilation of proverbs titled Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; wise sentences and witty saying, ancient and modern, foreign and British which includes the words, "Be you never so high, the law is above you". Wikipedia  

✵ 24. June 1654 – 17. September 1734
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Thomas Fuller (writer) Quotes

“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)

“4657. The more Cooks, the worse Broth.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Cooking

“5051. Time devours all things.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Time

“5000. This, or any Moment may be your last.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

“6099. Help, Hands;
For I have no Lands.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Help, Hands; for I have no Lands.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Help

“3214. Light-heel'd Mothers make leaden-heel'd Daughters.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Light heel'd mothers make leaden-heel'd daughters.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Light , Daughters

“3671. Nothing is ours, but Time.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Time

“3313. Make a Virtue of Necessity.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

“509. All complain of want of Memory, but none of want of Judgment.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Memory

“4301. Tailors and Writers must mind the Fashion.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Fashion

“1537. Fine Cloth is never out of Fashion.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Fashion , Clothes

“294. A Man may lead his Horse to Water, but cannot make him drink.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Drink , Water , Horse

“3655. None knows the Weight of another's Burthen.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

“4693. The older a Fool is, the worse he is.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Fools

“4545. The Fox may grow grey, but never good.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Many Foxes grow grey, but few grow good.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“613. An Hour may destroy what an Age was a building.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Age

“4070. Sauce for a Goose, is Sauce for a Gander.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

“4853. The Wrath of Brothers, is fierce and devilish.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

“2763. 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.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Men

“3270. Long life hath long Misery.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Life

“241. A light Purse makes a heavy Heart.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1733) : Light purse, heavy heart.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Light , Heart

“892. Better eat Salt with Philosophers of Greece, than eat Sugar with Courtezans of Italy.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece, than sugar with the Courtiers of Italy.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“4374. That War only is just, which is necessary.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

War

“977. Beware of no Man more than thy self.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

“2248. He that plants Trees, loves others besides himself.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Love , Tree

“2683. Have a Care of him that is slow to anger, for like as green Wood which is long in kindling, continueth hot longer than the dry, if it have once taken Fire : So that Man, who is not easily moved is more hard to be pacify'd, than he that is quickly provoked.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Anger

“3461. More than enough is too much.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

“6320. Man proposes;
God disposes.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

God

“6384. He that would please all, and himself too,
Undertakes what none could ever do.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

“2762. In Matters of Slander, thou oughtest to suspend thy Judgment, and examine the Thing; and not, as the common Custom is, persuade thyself, that common Report is sufficient warrant for the Truth of the Matters. Popular Opinion is the greatest Lie in the World.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Truth , Lie , World

“4389. That, which you sow, you must reap.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

“2454. If any one giveth thee excessive Praises more than can handsomely belong to thee, thou art to think of him, that he taketh thee for vain and credulous, and easy to be deceived, and effectually a Fool.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Fools , Art , Thinking