If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.