“A fooles bolt is soone shot.”

— John Heywood

Part II, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of p… 1497–1580

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Sloppy Firsts

“There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4, "Mr. Badger"

“A fool and his money are soon elected.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

“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 quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.”

William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener

On Reserve

“If I amlucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“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

“Like men condemn'd to thunder-bolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts;
Or fools besotted with their crimes,
That know not how to shift betimes,
And neither have the hearts to stay,
Nor wit enough to run away.”

Samuel Butler (poet) Hudibras

Hudibras, Part III (1678)
Context: We idly sit, like stupid blockheads,
Our hands committed to our pockets,
And nothing but our tongues at large,
To get the wretches a discharge:
Like men condemn'd to thunder-bolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts;
Or fools besotted with their crimes,
That know not how to shift betimes,
And neither have the hearts to stay,
Nor wit enough to run away.

“As soon as the engagement was announced, the Pack Clans converged and shot the idea of a quiet ceremony out of the water and then kept firing at it until it stopped convulsing and died.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

“A fooles bolt is soone shot.”

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