Fools Day Quotes

• Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

  Maurice Freehill

  Fear, Children, Dark

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

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Success, Carpe Diem

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

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

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

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

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• Art is the proper task of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Art, Tasks

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

  George Orwell

  Humility, Aggravation, April

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

  Gene Brown

  Fool Proof, April, Pranks

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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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• 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, Three

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

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

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Finding Yourself, April Fools

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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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, World

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• Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Humor, World

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

  William Blake

  Wise, Photography, Teaching

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Political

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

  Anatole France

  Fashion, Thinking, Literature

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1885.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Mothers Day, Mom, Women

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

  Robert Frost

  Life, Forgiveness, God

  In the Clearing (1962) "Cluster of Faith"

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Men, Expression

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• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Cute, Witty, Foolish

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [37]

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

  Alan Coren

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Two

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• 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

  Growing Up, Children, Moving

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Love Stories”, p.136, The Floating Press

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• The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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