April Fools Day Quotes For Students And Students: William Shakespeare famously said, “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” On April Fools’ Day, showcase your wit and humor with these quotes. If you are a prankster, play a harmless prank, and tease your friends. If you are not a prankster, beware of those who are. You will need loads of it on April Fools Day.
April Fools Day Quotes For Students And Children
- 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
- Even the gods love jokes. ~ Plato
- The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~ George Orwell
- The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ~ Will Rogers
- The maple syrup’s full of ants.
A mouse is creeping on the shelf.
Is that a spider on your back?
I ate the whole pie by myself.
The kitchen sink just overflowed.
A flash flood washed away the school.
I threw your blanket in the trash.
I never lie—-I—
April Fool!
~ Myra Cohn Livingston - Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. ~ Charles Lamb
- The first of April, some do say
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
- The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. ~ Thomas Shadwell
- 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
- Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment. ~ Horace
- A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ~ William Blake
- Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me. ~ Robert Frost
- Art is a revolt against fate. ~ Andre Malraux
- I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. ~ Alan Coren
- Art is the proper task of life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. ~ Theodor Adorno
- 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
- Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools. ~ Gene Brown
- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~ Will Rogers
- Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~ Twyla Tharp
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ~ Thomas Merton
- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~ Will Roger
- If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~ Welsh Proverb
- Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ~ John Ruskin
- Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor. ~ Henry A. Kissinger
- A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice. ~ Anonymous
- Even the gods love jokes. ~ Plato
- 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
- I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. ~ Oscar Wilde
- What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. ~ Spanish Proverb
- It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. ~ Max Eastman
- So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now. ~ Anonymous
- He who is born a fool is never cured. ~ Proverb – April Fools Day Quotes
- One of love’s April-fools. ~ William Congreve
- For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~ Alexander Pope
- Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. ~ Carl Gustav Jung
- Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~ Irish Proverb
- A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. ~ Jack Handey
- Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. ~ Cato the Elder
- It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~ Spanish Proverb
- We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~ Japanese Proverb
- If it thunders on All Fool’s Day, Expect good crops of corn and hay. ~ Anonymous
- I have great faith in fools – self-confidence, my friends call it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ~ Will Rogers
- Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ~ Mark Twain
- A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice. ~ Bill Cosby
- A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~ Welsh Proverb
- The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes. ~ JD Bernal
- Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. ~ Jewish Proverb
- The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~ George Orwell
- This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. ~ Mark Twain
- APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- 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
- 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
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~ Douglas Adams
- Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. ~ Charles Lamb
- 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
- You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that! ~ Dave Barry
- It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. ~ Anonymous – April Fools Day Quotes
- April Fools gone past, and you’re the biggest fool at last. ~ Anonymous
- Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~ Anonymous
- Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment. ~ Anonymous
- Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. ~ Anonymous
- Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Small April sobbed, I’m going to cry Please give me a cloud to wipe my eye; Then April Fool, she laughed instead And smiled a rainbow overhead. ~ Anonymous
- The fool is always beginning to live. ~ Proverb
- Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. ~ English Proverb
- Every fool finds a greater one to admire them. ~ Bioleau
- Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ~ Euripides
- You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself. ~ Ethel Barrymore
- Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. ~ Anonymous