A fool cannot be questioned or explained.
~
Yiddish Proverb
Even the gods love jokes.
~
Plato
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
~
Jack Handey
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
~
Henry Louis Mencken
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
~
Will Rogers
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
~
Euripides
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
~ Mark Twain
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
~
Sacha Guitry
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
~ William Shakespeare
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~
Douglas Adams
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
~
Clifton Paul Fadiman
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
~
Spanish Proverb
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~
Max Eastman
Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job.
~
Author Unknown
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
Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
~ Irish Proverbs
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
~
Anatole France
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
~
Horace
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~
Colette
Irish dramatist, poet, author and one of the most iconic figures from
late Victorian society. For his sexuality he suffered the indignity and shame of imprisonment.
For a long time his name was synonymous with scandal and intrigue.
However with changing social attitudes he is remembered with great affection for his biting social criticism, wit and linguistic skills.
(1854-1900)
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
Arapaho ~ Native American Proverbs
Hope is the physician of each misery.
~ Irish Proverbs
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
~ Albert Einstein
