Thomas Fuller Quotes

4106. Set a Thief to catch a Thief.

284. A Man knows his Companion in a long Journey and a little Inn.

2245. He that payeth beforehand, shall have his Work ill done.

4769. The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it.

5188. To hold with the Hare, and run with the Hounds.

2863. It is a long Lane that never turns.

4948. They agree like Bells ; they want nothing but hanging.

5138. To believe a Business impossible, is the Way to make it so.

3908. Poverty is not a Shame ; but the being asham'd of it, is.

Penny-wise, and Pound-foolish.

4522. The Fly, that playeth too long in the Candle, singeth her Wings at last.

3064. Be not always hot, and hasty in managing thy Affairs. Prudent Pauses forward Business : There is sometimes more Skill shewed by a Physician in not Prescribing, than in Prescribing. And there is no better Remedy for some Diseases, than to let them alone : for unseasonable meddling with them, may hinder their proceeding to a Crisis, and at long Run they will mend of themselves.

294. A Man may lead his Horse to Water, but cannot make him drink.

5968. You must plow with such Oxen as you have.

5354. Vice is its own Punishment, and sometimes its own Cure.