April Fools’ Day Quotes and Sayings is a collection of famous quotes and sayings about this one of the most light-hearted days of the year – April 1. Also known as All Fools’ Day, it was first celebrated in France and many historians believed that this was derived when the country stopped using the Gregorian Calendar in the 16th century. Then the celebration of the New Year’s Day was from Jan.1 to April 1 and people who celebrate on this day were considered “April fools“.
Be careful for any tricks and pranks ahead your way and take time to read through these popular April Fools’ Day Quotes and Sayings. Happy April Fools Day 2014!
“Even the gods love jokes.” — Plato
“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
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” — Max Eastman
“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
“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
“Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.” — Irish 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
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.” — Mark Twain
“The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.” — George Orwell
“It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.” — Spanish Proverb
“If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.” — Welsh Proverb
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” — Douglas Adams
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.” — Will Rogers
“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
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.” — Jack Handey
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.” — Clifton Paul Fadiman
“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” — Charles Lamb
“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
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.” — Japanese Proverb
“I have great faith in fools – self-confidence, my friends call it.” — Edgar Allan Poe
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