Thomas Fuller (writer): Quotes about men

“3918. Praise makes good Men better, and bad Men worse.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 3162. Learning makes a good Man better, and an ill Man worse.

Men

“5744. Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.
Context: 830. Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.

Men , Wine , Sea

“4163. Silent Men, like still Waters, are deep and dangerous.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Men , Water

“3400. Men never think their Fortune too great, nor their Wit too little.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Men , Thinking

“1577. Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Men , Fools

“270. A Man among Children will be long a Child, a Child among Men will be soon a Man.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Men , Children

“2858. By Trifles and unheeded common Things of Life, thou may'st discover Mens Qualities, Tempers, and Inclinations, better than by their greater Actions : Because in Matters of Importance they strain themselves, but in lesser Things they heedlessly follow the Current of their own Natures.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Life , Men , Nature

“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.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Excerpt from Gnomologia, To the Reader (Prefatory Remarks).
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Men , People , Books , Forgetting

“2168. '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.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Men , Parting

“5779. Wise Men learn by other Men's Harms; Fools, by their own.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Men , Fools , Learning

“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

“3403. Men seek less to be instructed than applauded.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Men

“3387. Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Men , Forgetting

“3389. Men are more prone to revengeInjuries, than to requite Kindnesses.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Men

“3895. Poor men seek meat for their Stomach; rich Men Stomach for their Meat.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Men

“539. All Men think their Enemies ill Men.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Men , Thinking

“5003. Tho' all Men were made of one Metal, yet they were not cast all in the same Mould.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

Men

“3968. Proud Men can't bear with Pride in others.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

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