The first of April, some do say
Small April sobbed, I'm going to cry
If it thunders on All Fool's Day,
"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
"The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world."
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
"Silence is the wit of fools."
"The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they
"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool, usually has his suspicions."
"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one,
"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them."
"A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom."
"A fool may be known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit;
"What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning."
"Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side."
"Fools build houses, and wise men buy them."
"The fool is always beginning to live."
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?"
"Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools."
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself."
"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
"Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit."
"There is no greater fool than he that says, 'There is no God,' unless it be the one
"A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still."
"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself.
"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."
"To be a man's fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's."
"None but a fool is always right."
"Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so."
"Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own."
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men...and the fools know it."
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something."
"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."
"Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows."
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool."
"Lord, what fools these mortals be."
Is set apart for All Fool's Day;
But why the people call it so
Nor I, nor they themselves, do know,
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.
[--Poor Robin's Almanac (1790)--]
Please give me a cloud to wipe my eye;
Then April Fool, she laughed instead
And smiled a rainbow overhead.
[--Anonymous--]
Expect good crops of corn and hay.
[--Anonymous--]
[--Mark Twain--]
[--Thomas Shadwell--]
[--Sir Winston Churchill--]
[--Jean la Bruyere--]
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--]
[--Anonymous--]
must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."
[--Bioleau--]
[--Bioleau--]
[--Welsh Proverb--]
change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger; and
mistaking foes for friends."
[--Arabian Proverb--]
[--Spanish Proverb--]
[--Jewish Proverb--]
[--English Proverb--]
[--Proverb--]
[--Robert Frost--]
[--Maurice Freehill--]
[--Gene Brown--]
[--William Blake--]
[--Alexander Pope--]
[--Michel de Montaigne--]
[--Cynthia Heimel--]
[--Voltaire--]
[--Josh Billings--]
who says he does not know whether there is one or not."
[--Bismarck--]
[--Rivarol--]
[--Benjamin Franklin--]
The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."
[--Charles Caleb Colton--]
[--Cato the Elder--]
[--Penn--]
[--Hare--]
[--Metcalf--]
[--H.G. Bohn--]
[--Balthasar Gracian--]
[--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.--]
[--Plato--]
[--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton--]
[--Anonymous--]
[--William Shakespeare--]
[--William Shakespeare--]
