Tea Quotes

Unknown - discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow...
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.
Simone Weil
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.
Robert J. Collie
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Muriel Strode
James r. angell - the primary purpose of education is not to teach...
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
Norman Douglas
Dorothea lange - the camera is an instrument that teaches people...
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
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
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Law
You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.
Galileo Galilei
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.
Hellen Kelle
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
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Gore Vidal
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Hellen Kelle
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.
Joe Moore
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Kelle
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, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.
Prophet Muhammad, Muslim
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophenes
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults - Yet faults tear away the perfection in you.
Mary Ross
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
William John Bennett
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
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
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
Anon.