“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
Pt. I, line 999–1005. Compare Publius Syrus, Maxim 289, "Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia" ("An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger").
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Variant: Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
Context: Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin’d:
Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind?
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
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John Dryden196
English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700Related quotes
“Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.”
John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) 7th Vice President of the United States
This has recently become attributed to Calhoun on the internet and in print, but seems to be a derivative of John Dryden's statement in Absalom and Achitophel (1681): Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
Disputed
“Beware the man of a single book.”
Hominem unius libri timeo. / Timeo hominem unius libri.
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
As quoted by Leonard Sweet, The Greatest Story Never Told http://books.google.gr/books?id=KuTRcjWL91AC&dq=, section: "The Gift of Lyrics", Abingdon Press, 2012<br>Variant: "Beware the man of one book."<br>See also: Homo unius libri <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: I fear the man of a single book.
“Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.”
William Feather (1889–1981) Publisher, Author
As quoted in Good Advice (1993), edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 215
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Latin fragment from Vergil's Aeneid, Book XII, line 499 : ‘He threw away all restraint on his anger.’
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“977. Beware of no Man more than thy self.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)