Fool Quote by Elizabeth I

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

— Michel de Montaigne

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

— Samuel Johnson

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

— Nicolas Chamfort

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve…

— Sigmund Freud

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

— Luc de Clapiers