Thomas Fuller (1608 – 1661) historiador e religioso inglês

Thomas Fuller (1608 – 16 de agosto de 1661), foi um historiador e religioso inglês.

Adágios e provérbios

• “Enquanto o poço não seca, não sabemos dar valor à água.”

– We never know. the worth. of water till. the well is dry

– Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British‎ – item 5451 Página 237, de Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) – Publicado por Printed for B. Barker, 1732 – 297 páginas

• “Muitos seriam covardes se tivessem coragem suficiente”.

– Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

– Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British‎ – item 3366 Página 144, de Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) – Publicado por Printed for B. Barker, 1732 – 297 páginas

• “Nada é bom ou ruim se não for por comparação.”

– Nothing is good or bad but by comparison

– Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British‎ – item 3966 Página 156, de Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) – Publicado por Printed for B. Barker, 1732 – 297 páginas

• “Esquecemo-nos todos de muito mais do que nos lembramos.”

– All of us forget more than we remember

– Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British‎ – Página iii, de Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) – Publicado por Printed for B. Barker, 1732 – 297 páginas

• “Paciência abusada vira fúria.”

– Patience provok’d turns to Fury

– Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British‎ – item 3859 Página 164, de Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) – Publicado por Printed for B. Barker, 1732 – 297 páginas

• “As mentiras têm pernas curtas, mas o escândalo tem asas.”

– A Lye has no Leg, but a Scandal has Wings.

– Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British‎ – item 263 página 10, de Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) – Publicado por Printed for B. Barker, 1732 – 297 páginas

• “O hoje é aluno do ontem.”

– To-day is yesterday’s pupil

– Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British‎ – item 5153 página 225, de Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) – Publicado por Printed for B. Barker, 1732 – 297 páginas

• “Um alqueire de trigo é constituído de muitos grãos.”

– A whole Bufhel of Wheat is made up of fingle Grains

– Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British‎ – item 456 página 17, de Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) – Publicado por Printed for B. Barker, 1732 – 297 páginas