Don't laugh, you jokers

The boy shuffled to the front of the room, wilting under his teacher's glare.

Humbly, spurred by the titters of classmates, he put chalk to blackboard.

I will never play an April Fool's Day prank again, he wrote.

("A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?" - Bob Hope)

I will never play an April Fool's Day prank again.

("An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh." - Will Rogers)

I will never play an April Fool's Day prank again.

("If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." - Woody Allen)

I will never play an April Fool's Day prank again.

("With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." - Abraham Lincoln)

I will never play an April Fool's Day prank again.

("Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." - Kurt Vonnegut)

I will never play an April Fool's Day prank again.

("A laugh is a smile that bursts." - Mary H. Waldrip)

I will never play an April Fool's Day prank again.

("Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it." - Langston Hughes)

I will never play an April Fool's Day prank again.

("When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him." - Thomas Szasz.)