At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Seek home for rest, for home is best.
Thomas Tusser Author
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: England
- Born: Oct 19, 1524
- Died: May 3, 1580
Thomas Tusser 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 the rhyming couplet:
A foole and his monie be soone at debate,
which after with sorrow repents him too late.
This is an early version of the proverb A fool and his money are soon parted.