A fool and his money are soon parted.

—Thomas Tusser

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About Thomas Tusser

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Thomas Tusser (c. 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. For Tusser the garden was the domain...

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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

—Thomas Tusser

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

—Thomas Tusser

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

—Thomas Tusser

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The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

—Peter Ustinov

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

—George Bernard Shaw

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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

—Cynthia Heimel

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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