My Thinking Tree

Small April sobbed, I’m going to cry
Please give me a cloud to wipe my eye;
Then April Fool, she laughed instead
And smiled a rainbow overhead.-Anonymous

“A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool, usually has his suspicions.”-Anonymous

 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

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. ~Mark Twain

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment.
– Horace (65 BC – 8 BC)

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
– William of Baskerville in ‘The Name of the Rose’

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
– Colette (1873 – 1954

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence, my friends call it.  ~Edgar Allan Poe

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen.Women reach theirs at thirty-five.  Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?  ~Rita Rudner

“The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one,
must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.”-Bioleau

“Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.”-Josh Billings

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.” ~ Ethel Barrymore

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.- Bertrand Russell

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” -Plato