Tea Quotes
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)
You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.Clay P. Bedford
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.
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide - Ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.Michael
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Giovanni Ruffini
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
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
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
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
Much learning does not teach understanding.Heraclitus, On the Universe
The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.Shane Leslie
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.Robert Collie
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
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
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.George Bernard Shaw
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.Ed Howe
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.Kabbalah
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second - Rate art of imitation.Stephen Neill
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.E. M. Forste
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
Slow and steady wins the race.Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise
If you can read this, thank a teacher.Anonymous teache
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.Sophocles, Antigone
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges.Kahlil Gibran
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.Henry Adams
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.Omar Khayym
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.Jacques Martin Barzun
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.Bible, Colossians 3: 16
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


