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Relatable April Fools' Day Quotes That'll Make You Appreciate This Holiday

By Chelsey Grasso

April Fools' Day is the ultimate test of humor, and these relatable April Fools' Day quotes are the type that you'll be nodding your head in agreement with... that is, if you're not burying your face in your hands and laughing. If you don't have a great sense of humor, then April Fools' Day is likely your least favorite day of the year. If you know how to laugh at yourself, then April Fools' Day is probably the best date on the calendar. For those of you who are in the latter group, then these quotes will be right up your alley.

I think it's fair to say that everybody plays the fool at one time or another (and for some of us, a lot more than one time), but you know what? As long as you can laugh at yourself, then it's all good. Whether you plan on playing some tricks on your friends and family this Apr. 1 or whether your friends and family are planning to play some tricks on you on Apr. 1, these quotes capture all the emotions that go hand-in-hand with the holiday. Prepare yourself by reading through them all, and then keep your eyes peeled on the first of the month.

1. "Yet still when the famed first of April returns... I dread the approach." — Matthew Gregory Lewis

2. "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." — Chinese Proverb

3. "Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed." — Mark Twain

4. "Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever." — Charles Lamb

5. "I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it." — Jack Handey

6. "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

7. "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

8. "A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke — and that the joke is oneself." — Clifton Paul Fadiman

9. "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor." — Max Eastman

10. "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me." — Robert Frost