April Fool Wishes and Status Messages - Page 13

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~George Orwell

Even the gods love jokes. ~Plato

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

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

The first of April, some do say
Is set apart for All Fool''s Day;
But why the people call it so
Nor I, nor they themselves, do know,
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.
- Anonymous

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

He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb

The maple syrup''s full of ants.
A mouse is creeping on the shelf.
Is that a spider on your back?
I ate the whole pie by myself.
The kitchen sink just overflowed.
A flash flood washed away the school.
I threw your blanket in the trash.
I never lie----I---
APRIL FOOL! - Myra Cohn Livingston

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
- Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~Douglas Adams

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence, my friends call it. ~Edgar Allan Poe

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

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ~Mark Twain

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

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961

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

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I''ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962

We''re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ~Will Rogers

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

I hope life isn''t a big joke, because I don''t get it. ~Jack Handey

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It''s good to be silly at the right moment.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
- William of Baskerville in ''The Name of the Rose''

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