Tea Quotes

Favorite animal: steak.
Fran Lebowitz
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Unknown
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.
Jean Nathan Mille
Mohandas ghandi - i cannot teach you violence, as i do not myself...
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?
Alan Perlis
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.
E. W. Dijkstra
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
Nietzsche
Latin prove - by learning you will teach, by teaching you will...
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide - Ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.
Michael
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.
Peretz Smolenskin
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 scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
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
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form 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.
Gaius Petronius
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
Unknown
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
David Richerby
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
Victor Daniels
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
James R. Angell
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Beryl Pfize