Tea Quotes
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.Mark Twain
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warner, Spinste
One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.Josephine Preston Peabody
If you can read this, thank a teacher.Anonymous teache
Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.Judy Garland
We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves.Prophet Joseph Smith
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.Saying Folk
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.J. Edgar Hoove
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.La Rochefoucauld
There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.Peretz Smolenskin
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.John Cotton Dana
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.Doctor Who
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.Sophocles, Antigone
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.Chinese Prove
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.Unknown
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.
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can? t teach someone who writes columns to care.Ellen Goodman
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.Raynor Schein
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.Oscar Wilde
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.Kahlil Gibran
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.Henry David Thoreau
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.Lorne Bloch
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.Pablo Piccaso
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - - That doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.Buddha
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.Baltasar Gracian
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.Unknown
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.Socrates
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.Robert J. Collie
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
