Thomas Fuller (physician)

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Thomas Fuller (1654–1734) was an English physician, writer and adage collector.

For the earlier author of The Worthies of England, see Thomas Fuller

[edit] Gnomologia (1732)

• A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
  • No. 284

• All things are difficult before they are easy
  • No. 560

• Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.
  • No. 1006

• Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.
  • No. 1090

• Fine Cloaths (sic) wear soonest out of Fashion.
  • No. 1536

• Fine Cloth is never out of Fashion.
  • No. 1537

• For Fashion's sake, as Dogs go to Church.
  • No. 1590

• Great and good are seldom the same man.
  • No. 1752

• Hatred is blind as well as love.
  • No. 1805

• He talks in the Bear-Garden Tongue.
  • No. 2033

• He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.
  • No. 2248

• Fools may invent Fashions that Wise Men will wear.
  • No. 2868
    • Similarly in French: Les fous inventent les modes et les sages les suivent.

• It is in vain to mislike the current Fashion.
  • No. 2968

• Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
  • No. 3515

• Tailors and Writers must mind the Fashion.
  • No. 4301

• The present Fashion is always handsome.
  • No. 4718

• Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.
  • No. 5272