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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.
Sep 10, 2025
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
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.
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.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
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