Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.