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A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.

Bob Thaves

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Bob Thaves
American - Cartoonist
October 5, 1924 - August 1, 2006

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

George Burns

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Thomas Tusser

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Stevenson I

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his words are soon parted.

William Shenstone

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

Jeff Bridges

Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A fool and his money are soon partying.

Steven Wright

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Will Rogers

A fool and his money be soon at debate

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon married.

Carolyn Wells

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

Warren Buffett

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

David Heinemeier Hansson

The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.

Kin Hubbard

Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the US tax code, you'd find at least one sex scene. ("Yes, yes, YES!" moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture...)

Dave Barry

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

Ferdinand Mount

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