Thomas Fuller è stato uno scrittore, medico e storico inglese.
“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)
Variante: 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)
Variante: 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)
Variante: 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)
