This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
The March fool with another month added to his folly.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
- Chinese Proverb
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
- Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962
He who is born a fool is never cured.
- Proverb
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
- Jack Handey
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
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
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
- Max Eastman