This is the day (April Fool's Day) upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. - Mark Twain  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 If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. - Anatole France  There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage. - Aristotle 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  Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. - Charles Caleb Colton  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. - Charles Caleb Colton  A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams  Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. - George Bernard Shaw  You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected. - Gerald Barzan There are more fools in the world than there are people. - Heinrich Heine Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. - Honore De Balzac   Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. - Josh Billings  Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town? - Mark Twain Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out. - Mark Twain If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be. - Mark Twain The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. - Mark Twain Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect. - Mark Twain  Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne  Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. - Plato

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