Quotes

Words

A few fun puns for Fools Day.

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.

– Edgar Allan Poe

Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.

– Henry David Thoreau

Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.

– Benjamin Franklin

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

– Mark Twain

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.

– Robert Frost

Words

“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness — just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motor-boats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as el mar which is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them.  The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.

Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea”