A Quote by Thomas Tusser

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

Thomas Tusser

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Five Fool Good Good Husband His Hundred Money Parted Points Soon

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Thomas Tusser
English - Poet
1524 - 1580

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. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.

Bob Thaves

A fool and his words are soon parted.

William Shenstone

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

Jeff Bridges

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

Thomas Tusser

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

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.