Tea Quotes

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Mrs. Sigourney

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

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

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

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Angela Schwindt

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

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain, Mark Twain In Eruption

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

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

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

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

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

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

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

Unknown

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

Martin Luthe

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

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Elbert Hubbard

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

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

Baltasar Gracian

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Anonymous

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.

The laws of Manu

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

Chinese prove

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

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

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Mark Twain

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Bob Talbert

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

Anonymous

Tell me.... And I Forget, Teach me..... And I Learn, Involve Me..... And I Remember.

Benjamin Franklin, Card

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Saint Jerome, Lette

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

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Peter Marshall

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Robert Benchley

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Latin Prove