Tea Quotes
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
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.Richard Armou
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
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
Live truth instead of professing it.Elbert Hubbard
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.Latin Prove
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.Kahlil Gibran
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
There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.Peretz Smolenskin
We need never be ashamed of our tears.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.Henry David Thoreau
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
No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
The scars of others should teach us caution.Saint Jerome, Lette
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field.Jim Boulton
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.Albert Smith
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.Mary Queen of Scots
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.T. S. Eliot
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.George Bernard Shaw
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
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 tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.Peter Stack, in a movie review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2, 1983
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.Aldous Huxley
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
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.Josh Billings
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.Robin Williams
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.Johann von Goethe
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.Heraclitus
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.Vince Lombardi
