“840. Barefoot must not go among Thorns.”

— Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot., Poor Richard's Almanack (1742) : He that sows thorns, should not go barefoot., and Poor Richard's Almanack (1756) : He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "840. Barefoot must not go among Thorns." by Thomas Fuller (writer)?

Thomas Fuller (writer) 420

British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

Related quotes

“2289. He that scattereth Thorns, must not go Barefoot.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“82. Hee that goes barefoot must not plant thornes.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader

“If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.”

Tamora Pierce book Page

Source: Page

“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

“Going Barefoot,” On the Vineyard (1980)

“The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 7 : Spiritual Progress
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.