“98. A Fool and his Money are soon parted.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“98. A Fool and his Money are soon parted.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
As quoted in The Stevenson Wit (1965) edited by Bill Adler
“A fool and his money is one big party.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English philosopher, born 1588
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …