Tea Quotes

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

Robert Collie

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Sir John Lubbock

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

David Richerby

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

John Knowles

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Prove

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

Richard Armou

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Albert Guinon

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

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - - Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.

Bruce Lee

Only dreamers can teach us to soar.

Anne Marie Pierce

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.

Ron Dart

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Vince Lombardi

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Lee Iacocca

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

James A. Garfield

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges.

Kahlil Gibran

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

Shane Leslie

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.

Jesse Louis Jackson

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Henri Frdric Amiel

If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.

Kwan - Tzu

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

Anna Jameson

A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude