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 Fadima
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
~Spanish Proverb
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 RudnerSuppose 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