“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)
“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)
“A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.”
William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener
On Reserve
“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
V. V. Giri (1894–1980) Indian politician and 4th president of India
Source: Presidents of India, 1950-2003, P.80
“A fooles bolt is soone shot.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English philosopher, born 1588
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
"Sundays of a Bourgeois"
Source: Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris, et autres aventures parisiennes