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

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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

—Edgar Allan Poe

Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.            —Irish Proverb

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

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

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

A fool may be known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit; change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger; and mistaking foes for friends.

—Arabian 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

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, / And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.          —Robert Frost

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

—Japanese Proverb

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

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.                —Sacha Guitry

Talk sense to a fool, and he calls you foolish.                 —Euripides

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

—Colette

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