Tea Quotes

Aeschylus - time as he grows old teaches many lessons....
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann von Goethe
I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.
Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides, Alexande
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - - And less trouble.
Mark Twain
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.
Anthony Sampson
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
Nietzsche
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. Robinson
Jack handey deep thoughts - instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about...
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
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
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren Bennis
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Ovid
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - - Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.
Bruce Lee
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.
Kwan - Tzu
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Theresa of Jesus
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...
Old School
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
La Rochefoucauld
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.
Pablo Piccaso
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
Victor Daniels
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
Publilius Syrus
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
Louis D. Brandeis
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Latin Prove
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A Bartlett Giamatti
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 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
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Unknown
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori