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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Sep 10, 2025
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they 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.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.
Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.
Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.
As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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?
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.
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?
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Even the gods love jokes.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
For April Fools Day, someone played a really cruel joke on me. They stole ALL my mirrors and I had to go hours without seeing myself. I mean, I couldn’t even do my daily affirmations. What kind of world is this? I tell you, it’s artists like myself that really suffer.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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