Quotes on Pranks

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

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

For too long, we've allowed ourselves to equate targeted bullying with innocent teasing, or dismissed it as pranks and ignored the torment and long-term impact that an incident like this has on young people.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Art is the proper task of life.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.