April Fools' Day!

"Fool me once,
Shame on you!
Fool me twice,
Shame on me."

--Chinese Proverb


You Know What They Say About Fools...

It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and leave no doubt. --Mark Twain

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

[Politicians] never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. -- Thomas Reed

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. -- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. -- Elizabeth Gaskell

Looking foolish does the spirit good. -- John Updike

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. -- Mark Twain

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. -- William Blake

A fool must now and then be right by chance. -- Cowper

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. -- Mark Twain

LINKS TO APRIL FOOL'S DAY INFO:

http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/other/aprlfool.html

http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/aprilfool.html