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
“5881. You can't eat your Cake, and have it too.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1744) : The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Wariant: 2592. I can't be your Friend, and your Flatterer too.
“5430. We are more mindful of Injuries than Benefits.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“6082. Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Wariant: 1370. Enough's as good as a Feast.
“5515. What's sowed in Youth, will be reaped in Age.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“3515. Necessity dispenseth with Decorum.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“284. A Man knows his Companion in a long Journey and a little Inn.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“5091. 'Tis Money, that begets Money.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“5138. To believe a Business impossible, is the Way to make it so.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“3006. It is often easier to make new, than to cobble up the old.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“2666. If Afflictions refine some, they consume others.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“5210. To nourish a Viper in one's Bosom”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“3061. Idleness makes the Wit rust.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“3733. Once in Use, and ever after a Custom.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“6319.
Little Stroaks
Fell great Oaks.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750).
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“803. Antiquity cannot privilege an Error, nor Novelty prejudice a Truth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“4266. Strike, while the Iron is hot.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“1345. Drunkenness turns a Man out of himself, and leaves a Beast in his room.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“3444. Money, like Dung, does no Good till ’tis spread.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“2863. It is a long Lane that never turns.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“4243. Speak the Truth, and shame the Devil.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“3400. Men never think their Fortune too great, nor their Wit too little.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“5192. To kill two Birds with one Stone.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“2707. If the Mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the Mountain.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“4322. Teach your Grannum to suck Eggs.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“5738. Wickedness is its own Punishment, and many Times its own Cure.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Wariant: 5354. Vice is its own Punishment, and sometimes its own Cure.
“743. As Virtue is its own Reward, so Vice is its own Punishment.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)