April-fools Sentence Examples

Some people wake up on April Fools’ Day with mischievous glee, while others wake up with a sense of pure dread. But whether you love the tricks of this goofy holiday or hate them, you may wonder about the origin and punctuation of April Fools’ Day — as well as who played the very first April Fools’ trick.

In the summer of 1845, 27-year-old Henry David Thoreau came to Walden Pond to be alone. He recorded his thoughts, observations and beliefs on a wide variety of subjects, particularly the value of the natural world, the tenets of the transcendental movement, and the necessity of civil disobedience in a modern society. The resulting work, Walden, would go on to be one of the most influential books in American history, joining Thoreau’s quotable library of essays, journal entries, correspondence, and other works of writing.