“A Man among Children will be long a Child, a Child among Men will be soon a Man.”

— Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

About Thomas Fuller

English compiler of the proverb collection 'Gnomologia' (1732).

“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”

“Make not a Jest of another Man's Infirmity.”

“Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.”

“The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”