Tea Quotes

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

Unknown

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. Michael Straczynski

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

Francis Bacon

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot

He who teaches children learns more than they do.

German Prove

Anglo - Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Hellen Kelle

The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...

Thomas Jefferson

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

William Ellery Channing

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

Pierre Auguste Renoi

All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.

Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Mrs. Sigourney

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

Indian Prove

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

Horace Mann

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.

Andre Bernard Buruch

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Richard Bach

College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks.

H. L. Mencken

The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

Fortran manual for Xerox Computers

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Euripides, Alexande

What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.

George Bernard Shaw

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Gustav Jung

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Jan Ehrenwald.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Ellen Gilcrist

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Peter Marshall