The first of April is the rare day of the year that always guarantees a couple of laughs and some stress relief in our busy and sometimes overwhelming lives.
So in today’s post I thought I’d simply share 55 of the funniest, cleverest and most memorable quotes about fools and April Fools’ Day.
I hope you’ll find something here that’ll give you a few good laughs. Maybe an insight or two about fools (and a chuckle if you realize that you’ve been one recently).
And something you can share with friends or co-workers along with the pranks of today for some fun, positive vibes.
Funny April Fools’ Day Quotes
“The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.”
– Mark Twain
“I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.”
– Alan Coren
“I’ve had great success being a total idiot.”
– Jerry Lewis
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.”
– Will Rogers
“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.”
– Charles Lamb
“I have great faith in fools — self-confidence, my friends call it.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.”
– Jack Handey
“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
– George Carlin
“Fool me once, strike one. Fool me twice, strike three.”
– Michael Scott
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
– Will Rogers
“The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.”
– Oscar Wilde
“So you’ve been burned a couple times. Um, have we met? I’ve been burned so many times I’m like the human equivalent of the inside of a roasted marshmallow.”
– David Rose
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
– Dean Koontz
“I love inside jokes. I’d love to be a part of one someday.”
– Michael Scott
“He who laughs last… just didn’t get the joke.”
– Carroll Bryant
“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.”
– Cynthia Heimel
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
– Mark Twain
“Even the gods love jokes.”
– Plato
Clever April Fools’ Day Quotes
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
– Douglas Adams
“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”
– Sacha Guitry
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
– Winston Churchill
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
– Bertrand Russell
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”
– Richard Feynman
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.”
– Plato
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
– William Shakespeare
“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”
– Quintilian
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
– Albert Einstein
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”
– François de La Rochefoucauld
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“On stupidity — There is no such thing as a foolproof plan. If there are fools about, no plan is proof against them.”
– Marsha Hinds
“It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.”
– Anatole France
“Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”
– Cato the Elder
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
– William Shakespeare
“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
Short April Fools’ Day Quotes
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
– Alexander Pope
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
– William Shakespeare
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
– Euripides
“Confidence comes from being prepared.”
– John Wooden
“No man can tame a predator by acting like prey.”
– Tamerlan Kuzgov
“Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Lord, what fools these mortals be.”
– William Shakespeare
“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
– Mae West
“If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.”
– Welsh Proverb
“A fool and his words are soon parted.”
– William Shenstone
“The fool knows after he’s suffered.”
– Hesiod
“He who is born a fool is never cured.”
– Proverb
“All the world loves a clown.”
– Cole Porter
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”
– Japanese Proverb
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
– Robert Frost
Want more uplifting inspiration for your April and spring? Then have a look at these April quotes, the inspirational Easter quotes here, the positive spring quotes in this post and also these short spring quotes and these short spring captions.
