Tea Quotes
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.William Hazlitt
Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.Prophet Muhammad, Muslim
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.Mark Twain
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 bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
We trained hard, but it seemed that 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.Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.
A thief believes everybody steals.E. W. Howe
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.Eric Bentley
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
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, The Happy Life, 1896
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
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
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.J. Edgar Hoove
For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.Pink Floyd
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
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
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.Confucius
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
Our lives teach us who we are.Salman Rushdie
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.Maria Montessori
The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.Stephen Neill
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
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide - Ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.Michael
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.Adlai E. Stevenson, J
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults - Yet faults tear away the perfection in you.Mary Ross
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warner, Spinste
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.James A. Froude
Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.Unknown
A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.Henry Adams
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.Unknown
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.Sir George Savile
