• 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, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

• April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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

• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. - Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962

• He who is born a fool is never cured.
- Proverb

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

• If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
- Welsh Proverb

• I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
- Jack Handey

• We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
- Japanese Proverb

• 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

• Even the gods love jokes.
- Plato

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

• A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
- Henry Louis Mencken

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

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

• Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
- Irish Proverb

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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
- Jack Handey