Tea Quotes

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Albert Guinon

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Lord Byron

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can? t teach someone who writes columns to care.

Ellen Goodman

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Hellen Kelle

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We trained hard, but it seemed 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.

From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - Instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Jung

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Unknown

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Albert Einstein

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

Ed Howe

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Othello

It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.

Mark Twain

There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.

Peretz Smolenskin

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

Josephine Preston Peabody

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

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

Horace Mann

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

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

John Vance Cheney

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Prove

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Henry St. John Bolingbroke

Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.

Raynor Schein

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 steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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