Witty Quotes - Page 3

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
        —William Saroyan

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
        —Chinese proverb

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak-because some day you will have been all of these...
        —George Washington Carver

I could while away the hours, Conferrin' with the flowers, Consultin' with the rain, And my head I'd be scratchin' While my thoughts were busy hatchin', if I only had a brain!
        —The Scarecrow

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
        —Voltaire

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
        —Golda Meir

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, but offer the value itself.
        —Walt Whitman, Carol of Occupations (1855), in Leaves of Grass

I think; therefore I am.
        —Rene Descartes

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
        —George Burns

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
        —Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626