Tea Quotes

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Helen Kelle

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Maria Montessori

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.

Louis A. Berman

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.

Mark Twain

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Savage Lando

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 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

Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.

S. Barry Lipkin

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allen Poe

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren Bennis

Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.

Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943 - 50)

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Russell Hoban

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

Henry Mille

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Bob Conklin

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

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

John Vance Cheney

Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bentley

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

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 have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Kahlil Gibron

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

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

James Barrie

We trained hard, but it seemed 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.

From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott