April Fools Quotes

• Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

  Sacha Guitry

  April, Foolish, April Fools Day

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• As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

  Al Yankovic

  Wise, Men, Fools Day

  Al Yankovic @alyankovic, twitter.com. April 1, 2010.

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

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Fools Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Parenting

  The Illiterate Digest "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince" (1924)

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Friendship, Confidence

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fools Day, Months, April

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.13, 谷月社

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• 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

  Funny, Humorous, Fools Day

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 21, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Clifton Fadiman

  Funny Inspirational, Humor, Fools Day

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

  Charles Lamb

  Funny Inspirational, Spring, Fools Day

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

  Max Eastman

  Happiness, Funny Inspirational, Humor

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

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

  Otto von Bismarck

  Truth, Military, Writing

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

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

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Leadership, Motivation

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

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Art, Reality

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  Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

  Euripides

  Relationship, Stupid, Communication

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Break Up, Glasses, Fools Day

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

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Life, Wise

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2009

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Men, Expression

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• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Fools Day, Doubt, Foolish

  Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside

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• Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

  Theodor Adorno

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Inspiration, Years

  "Rename April Fools' Day for the French" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com.

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

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Dance, Running

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• 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

  Funny Inspirational, Dark, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• 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

  Love, Funny, Life

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