Born Quote by Robert Southey

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

— Alexander Pope

The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.

— Jane Brereton

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

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

— Daniel Defoe

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

— John Selden

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it…

— William Penn

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

— Henry David Thoreau