April Fool’s Day Quotes and Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.  ~Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even the gods love jokes.  ~Plato