April Fool’s Day is the funniest time of the year. So, when you have your pranks all ready to go you might be looking for some April Fools quotes, sayings or captions to go along with them and we have you covered. So when April Fools Day rolls around, pick your favorite April Fools saying and get ready to share your prank.
April Fools Quotes
Here are some of our favorite funny April Fools quotes.
“I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.” – Marilyn Monroe
“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
“This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” – Mark Twain
“Some people can’t be fooled on April Fool’s Day because they were fooled too many times during their entire lifetime.” – Akash B Chandran
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” – Will Rogers
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” – Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” – Charles Lamb
“Real friends are those who, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t feel that you’ve done a permanent job.” – Erwin T. Randall
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” – Winston Churchill
“Just a warning that on April Fools’ Day my natural distrust of others will be ratcheted up to a level bordering on psychosis.”
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” – Max Eastman
“I plan to spend April Fools’ Day remembering all of the pranks I thought of last year but completely forgot to execute this year.”
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.” – Ethel Barrymore
“Congratulations on effectively deceiving and humiliating me.”
“When your life becomes a joke, you do not need April Fool’s Day.”
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.” – Jack Handey
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” – Chinese Proverb
“A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.” – Bill Cosby
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Short April Quotes, April Captions, April Quotes, May Quotes, June Quotes and July Quotes.
Happy April Fool’s Day Messages
Happy April fool’s day, can you make me laugh?
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Happy April Fool’s Day!
Pranks demand creativity and ideas. Happy April Fool’s Day.
Wishing a very Happy April Fool’s Day to you my dear. There is no way we can change the fact, you are a fool and you will remain one.
Merry Christmas! Whoops! Happy April 1!
May you have a perfect April Fool’s Day full of pranks.
Hey friends, wishing you all an April Fool’s day because it is meant for you!
Fooling a wonderful friend like you is fun! Happy April Fool’s Day.
Today you are looking more awesome than any other day! Don’t scratch your head, it’s April Fool’s Day.
Here I’m wishing the biggest fool a very happy April Fool’s Day.
Do not react to others’ pranks, just stay calm. It is April Fool’s Day!
I was seeking for a fool and I found you! Happy Fool’s Day!
You are appreciated only once a year. That’s on April Fool’s Day!
Happy April Fool’s Day, From One To Another Fool!
May you have a perfect April Fool’s Day full of pranks.
Quotes for April Fool’s Jokes
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.” – Robert Frost
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.” – Will Rogers
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.” – Clifton Paul Fadiman
“Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment.” – Horace.
“The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.” – George Orwell
“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.” – George Bernard Shaw
“A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.” – George Orwell
“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.” – Rita Rudner
“Even the gods love jokes.” – Plato
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” – Max Eastman
“If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.” – Welsh proverb
“None but a fool is always right.” – Augustus William Hare
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“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.” – Laurence J. Peter
“Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.” – Irish Proverb
“Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.” – Gene Brown
“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.” – Michel de Montaigne
“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
“Isn’t it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool’s Day and ends with cries of May Day.”
“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.” – Sacha Guitry
“If you would avoid all fools go into a dense forest and there refrain from gazing into still pools.” – Austin O’Malley
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to someone else.” – Will Rogers
“The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.” – William Shakespeare
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” – Baltasar Gracian
“I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.” – Alan Coren
“Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.” – Jewish Proverb
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.” – William Shakespeare
“Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.” – Josh Billings
“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 fool may be known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit; change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger; and mistaking foes for friends.” – Arabian Proverb
“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light.” – Maurice Freehill
Quotes About Fools
“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.” – Welsh Proverb
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” – Douglas Adams
“What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.” – Spanish Proverb
“Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.” – Nicolas Boileau
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.” – Plato
“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.” – Nicolas Boileau
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.” – Josh Billings
“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.” – Cynthia Heimel
“The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.” – Thomas Shadwell
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” – Alexander Pope
“A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool’s coat still.” – Antoine de Rivarol
“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.” – Quintilian
“I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.” – H. G. Bohn
“The fool is always beginning to live.” – Proverb
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” – William Blake
“He who is born a fool is never cured.” – Proverb
“Lord, what fools these mortals be.” – William Shakespeare
“Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.” – Metcalf
“Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.” – Benjamin Franklin
“It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.” – Anatole France
“Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.” – Voltaire
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” – William Shakespeare
“Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment.” – Horace
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” – Euripides
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.” – Cato the Elder
“Silence is the wit of fools.” – Jean la Bruyere
“It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.” – Bill Hicks
“It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.” – Spanish Proverb
“Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.” – English Proverb
“So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.” – William of Baskerville
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.” – Mark Twain
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.” – Japanese Proverb
Funny April Fools Sayings
My birthday is on April 1st and nobody believes me
Happy April Fool’s Day, From One To Another Fool!
Laughing at yourself on April Fool’s Day shows your true colours.
April Fools’ is the only day to take people seriously.
I’m not a fan of April Fools’ Day. I can take a joke; I just don’t want to BE the joke.
Don’t forget to count your pranks at the end of April Fool’s Day.
Not everyone has the magical power to play the pranks.
You really have to be very smart to make a fool out of me.
Stop calling me “April Fool”, I think I might have an identity crisis.
Life is so much better with pranks and jokes.
If you love pranks then how can you not love April Fool’s Day.
I am blessed with the best fools in this world and I call them friends.
April Fools gone past, and you’re the biggest fool at last.
Why do we have April Fool’s Day when we fool people every day?
A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
April noddy’s past and gone, You’re the fool an’ I’m none.
If it thunders on All Fool’s Day, Expect good crops of corn and hay.
Funny April Fool’s Captions
Fool or get fooled
Don’t be an April Fool
Hello April, please don’t fool me.
Who needs April Fools when your whole life is a joke
Keep calm, its is only April fool’s day
Yahoooo, it’s April fool’s Day
Who Needs April Fool Day? My entire life Is a joke
Ready to fool!
And there you have it! Our list of the best quotes, sayings and captions. We hope you found one that spoke to you.
Now get out there and fool someone this April 1st!
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