Thomas Fuller

Who was Thomas Fuller?

Thomas Fuller 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 1732 he published a compilation of proverbs titled Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs.

Famous Quotes:

• Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
• Bad excuses are worse than none.
• Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
• He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
• He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
• Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
• Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
• Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
• Old foxes want no tutors.
• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.