Tea Quotes

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln

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

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Elliot Wayne Eisne

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges.

Kahlil Gibran

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Benjamin Jowett

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan".

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.

Ron Dart

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Aristotle

Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.

Leon Lessinge

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

John Mason Good

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.

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

Donald G. Smith

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

A woman is like a tea bag - You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

G. Stanley Hall

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Watley

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults - Yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

Mary Ross

It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

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

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

Latin Prove

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

The years teach much which the days never knew.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius