Tea Quotes

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

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

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

William Shakespeare

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

Allen Ginsberg

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

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie Curie

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

James R. Angell

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Baltasar Gracian

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra

What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Sacha Guitry

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Mae West

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

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

S. Barry Lipkin

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

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Richard Bach

Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

The revolution is not a tea party.

Mao Tse - Tung

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

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

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Theodore Roosevelt

The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Warren Bennis

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

I Ching

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

Franklin Thomas

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.

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

As you teach, you learn.

Jewish Prove

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Gore Vidal

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

Shane Leslie