Friday, April 1, 2011

April Fools Day

You Know What They Say About Fools...

* It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and leave no doubt. --Mark Twain
* However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
* [Politicians] never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. -- Thomas Reed
* He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. -- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
* The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer
* Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
* Looking foolish does the spirit good. -- John Updike
* Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. -- Mark Twain
* A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. -- William Blake
* A fool must now and then be right by chance. -- Cowper
* It is better to be a fool than to be dead. -- Stevenson
* The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. -- Mark Twain

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