According to the proverb, a fool and his money are soon what?
Thomas Tusser Thomas Tusser Thomas Tusser (1524 – 3 May 1580) was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry", an expanded version of his original title, "A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie", first published in 1557. "Five Hundred Points" contains these rhyming couplets: "Swéete April showers," "Doo spring Maie flowers." "A foole and his monie be soone at debate," "which after with sorrow repents him too late." The latter is an early version of the proverb "A fool and his money are soon parted." Tusser was born in Rivenhall, Essex, in about
As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly developed the idea, imbuing it with a sense of shame and guilt, "As when a dog goes to his own vomit and becomes abominable, so is a fool who returns in his wickedness to his own sin." This was due to the contemporary idea of the fool as ungodly. The Second Epistle of Peter refers to the proverb (), "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." Kipling cites this in his poem "The Gods of