Business Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

— Anonymous

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

— William Shakespeare

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever then the men who laugh at them.

— George RR Martin

“The great drawback of being witty is that you have to keep your eyes fixed on the semi-idiots around you, and absorb their worthless…

— Stendhal

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

— Giacomo Casanova

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

— Nikolai Gogol

Every one is witty for his owne purpose.

— George Herbert

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an…

— Oscar Wilde