Tea Quotes

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

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Gore Vidal

Instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about burning him at the STILTS It probably lasts longer, plus it moves around.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

Pearl Buck

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allen Poe

Experience teaches only the teachable.

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

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.

The laws of Manu

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Mount Hufstedle

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.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. Michael Straczynski

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

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Bradley Mille

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

C. S. Robinson

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Baltasar Gracian

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

Pierre Auguste Renoi

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Robert Benchley

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mohandas Ghandi

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

My favorite animal is steak.

Fran Lebowitz

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

David Richerby

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus, On the Universe

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003