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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  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Fear, Angel

  An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

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

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Leadership, Motivation

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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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• 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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• Even the gods love jokes.

  Plato

  Love, Funny Inspirational, Laughter

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Art is the proper task of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Art, Tasks

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

  Clifton Fadiman

  Funny Inspirational, Humor, April

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

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fool Me Once

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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

  Thomas Shadwell

  Haste, World, April

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

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• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Doubt, April Fools, Foolish

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

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

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Dance, Running

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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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• 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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