Posted on 04/01/2004 4:49:10 PM PST by Indy Pendance
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four ~ Mark Twain
I'll start with mine...
April 1, 1985, after buying our first home the year before, (interest rate of 14% -- Thank you Jimmy Carter), we purchased a lot of items for our new home on our credit card. We needed to paint the walls, carpet some rooms, and hang curtains and drapery for the windows. We didn't have any yard equipment, so we needed a lawnmower and other yard items as well.
Our new home was a used 1920's model, and had a really interesting 'octopus' furnace, so that had to be replaced. Luckily, our gas company had a deal if you purchased a new high efficiency, state of the art furnace, they would finance it right on your heat bill. We took advantage of that, because they were offering a 4% rate. Basically, we needed all the things to start a life as a homeowner. After a year or so of diligently making payments, we finally had our credit cards paid off! It was such an awesome feeling to be debt free, except for our mortgage payment.
But, we didn't have dining room furniture. So .... I called my husband at work, April 1, 1985, in the afternoon. I explained how I found a really nice dining room set at Ethan Allen. It was an 6 chair table with leaves to extend for 10-12 people. We needed the extra 6 chairs for company, and of course the matching china cabinet and sidebar. All for the great price of just over $3,000.
He asked me how I paid for it, and promptly told him, I put it on the credit card.
April Fools!
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.
-- Dave Barry
You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
-- George W. Bush (spoken at a Washington Dinner, March 2001)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-- Douglas Adams
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
-- Dale Carnegie
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
-- Josh Billings
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
-- Doug Larson
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.
Author: Philip R. Breeze
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Author: Josh Billings
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Author: Bioleau
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Author: William Blake
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Author: Gene Brown
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Author: George Eliot
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Author: Henry Ford
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Author: Maurice Freehill
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Author: Robert Frost
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
Author: Gerald W. Grumet
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Author: Cynthia Heimel
Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.
Author: Hertzler
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Author: Michael Korda
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Author: George Lorimer
The fool is always beginning to live.
Author: Proverb
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Author: English Proverb
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Author: Jewish Proverb
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Author: Spanish Proverb
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Author: Welsh Proverb
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
Author: Thomas Brackett Reed
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Author: Thomas Shadwell
Lord, what fools these mortals be.
Author: William Shakespeare
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
Author: H. Allen Smith
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Author: Wes Smith
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
Author: Alfred Sutro
It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious.
Author: Source Unknown
Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Author: Plato
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We like physical april fools.
place a rubberband around the nozzle on the kitchen sink and point it at the person turning the water on. Don't forget about it though. My husband got me with this one.
my kids got me with the shower nozzle. they pointed it outside the bathtub. right at me as i turned the water to the shower.
as you can see there is a recurring theme here.
I'd have a hard time dealing with day old matching numbers.
My favorite was ... was, I say .... putting salt in the sugar bowl.
Now that we're addicted (to coffee) ... and (both) armed .... well ... it just wouldn't be a pretty picture.
Nope.
Not a pretty picture a'tall.
I just told her how much I love her and did not follow up with, April Fool.
Wild Bill Hickock to Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man
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