A child dresses up for a traditional celebration of April Fool's Day in Skopje, March 31, 2006.REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski
It is that time of the year again when you play pranks on someone and get away with it without doing much harm to yourself. Across the world, several pranksters would be getting ready to pull jokes on unsuspecting people for April Fools’ Day that falls Saturday.
If you are not one to pull a prank, you may want to be careful from those who pull a joke on you. You can also celebrate the day by sharing the following funny sayings gathered from ThoughtCo and Quote Authors with your friends and family.
“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” — Mark Twain
“Even the gods love jokes.” — Plato
“The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.” — George Orwell
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“I have great faith in fools — self-confidence, my friends call it.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” — Charles Lamb
“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
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.” — Will Rogers
“Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.” — Irish proverb
“Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.” — English proverb
“He who is born a fool is never cured.” — Unknown
“Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.” — H.G. Bohn
“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” — Charles Lamb
“It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.” — Spanish proverb
