Funny April Fools Day Quotes:

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

- Mark Twain

topic: Spring, Inspiration, Years, Fools Day, Funny April Fools

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

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fake People, Software Design, Inspirational Design

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

topic: Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Three, Fools And Foolishness, Fools Day

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Foolish Man, Fools And Foolishness, Fools And Wise, Fools Day, Funny April Fools

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

- Robert Frost

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Women, Foolish Man, Pranks

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

- Charles Lamb

topic: Funny Inspirational, Spring, World, Pranks, Fools Day

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

- Max Eastman

source: Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

topic: Humor, Ability, Prove, Good Sense Of Humor, Pranks

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

- Gene Brown

topic: Fool, Ingenuity, Accounts, Pranks, Fool Proof

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Humility, Mirrors, Wish, Funny April Fools Day, April Fools

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

- Alan Coren

topic: Humorous, Two, Tests, Pranks, Payroll

The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: Children, Growing Up, Moving, Fools Day, Funny April Fools

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

- Twyla Tharp

topic: Music, Running, Witty, Creative Artists, Inspiring Art

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

- John Ruskin

topic: Positive, Art, Reality, Fools Day, Funny April Fools Day

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs, Making Friends, Bff

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Art, Men, Expression, Fools Day, Funny April Fools

Art is the proper task of life.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Life, Art, Tasks, Fools Day, Funny April Fools

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

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Eighteen, Practical Joke

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

- Cynthia Heimel

topic: Doubt, Fool, Making A Fool Of Yourself, Chance And Risk, Fools Day

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Funny Inspirational, Dark, Men, Pranks, Fools Day

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Business, Life Lesson, Lessons, Pranks, Fools And Foolishness

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

- Will Rogers

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Political, Practical Joke, Pranks

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

topic: Funny April Fools Day

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Success, Carpe Diem, Being Thankful, Pranks, Equator

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

- Otto von Bismarck

source: "American Speaker : Your Guide to Successful Speaking". Book by Aram Bakshian, 1992.

topic: Truth, Military, Writing, Truth Will Set You Free, Prussia

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

- Will Rogers

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Parenting, Life Humor, Pranks

Even the gods love jokes.

- Plato

topic: Religion, God Love, Jokes, Pranks, Fools Day

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Fools Day, Funny April Fools

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Funny Inspirational, Sense Of Humor, Ability, Fools Day, Funny April Fools

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

- Virginia Foxx

topic: Silly, Fool Me Once, Conservative, Stupid Conservative, Pranks

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

- Thomas Shadwell

source: 'A True Widow' (1679) act 3, sc. 1

topic: Fool, Haste, World, Fools Day, Funny April Fools

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

- William Blake

topic: Wise, Photography, Teaching, Foolish Man, Withered Leaves

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Months, Fool, April, Fools Day, Funny April Fools

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

- Robert Frost

topic: Life, Forgiveness, God, Pranks, Fool Me

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Art, Self Discovery, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists

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

- George Orwell

topic: Humility, Fools Day, Aggravation, Pranks, Degrade

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

- Theodor Adorno

topic: Inspirational, Life, Art, Fools Day, Funny April Fools Day

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

- Bill Cosby

source: Twitter post from Oct 30, 2009

topic: Funny, Life, Wise, Silliness, Witty One Liners