April Fool's Day

Quotes for April Fool's Day

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

April fool, n.  The March fool with another month added to his folly. 

~Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

~Charles Lamb

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.

  ~ Unknown