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April 1. This is the day upon
which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and
sixty-four. — Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
— Chinese
Proverb
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
— Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962
He who is born a fool is never cured.
— Proverb
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could
not succeed.
— Mark Twain
If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
— Welsh Proverb
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
— Jack Handey
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
— Japanese Proverb
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people
all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
— Abraham Lincoln
Even the gods love jokes. — Plato
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get
elected. — Will Rogers
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he
blames the door he walks into in the dark. — Henry Louis Mencken
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools. — Douglas Adams
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have
a sense of humor.
— Max Eastman
Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
— Irish Proverb
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the
joke is oneself.
— Clifton Paul Fadiman
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
— Spanish Proverb
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence, my friends call it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind
him that he is already degraded. — George Orwell
Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at
thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical
joke? — Rita Rudner
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any
the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? — George
Bernard Shaw
Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of
yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job. — Author Unknown
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to
take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an
old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned
down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it
was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real
Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. — Jack Handey
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Quotations for April Fool's Day