WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:14:05 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg talkative – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 1404 (1732) https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/35906/ https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/35906/#respond Thu, 05 Jan 2017 01:37:25 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35906 Every Ass loves to hear himself bray.


Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 1404 (1732)
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Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) Irish poet, playwright, novelist
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Christian Nestell Bovee (1820-1904) American epigrammatist, writer, publisher
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