Tea Quotes

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophenes
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren Bennis
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
Peter Cochrane
Abraham lincoln - my father taught me to work he did not teach me...
Bruce lee - a good teacher protects his pupils from his own...
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Watley
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
Haniel Long
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
Mark twain - the holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and...
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardne
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do.
Johann von Goethe
How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
Henry Mille
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.
Zenna Schaffe
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
Jerry Coleman
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
Edgar Allan Poe
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.
Fred Waggone
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
James A. Froude
You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson
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
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.
Rene Descartes
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Henry Maudsley
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.
The Talmud
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)
A woman is like a tea bag - You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Gore Vidal
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Joseph Addison
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
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.
Anthony Sampson