Tea Quotes

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
Peter Cochrane
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.
Joe Moore
Warren bennis - people who cannot invent and reinvent themselves...
Robin williams - time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it...
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.
Unknown
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - Especially if he has a teenage daughter.
Guy Albert Lombardo
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.
Robert Collie
Lewis f. powell, jr. - history balances the frustration of how far we...
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
Edgar Allan Poe
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand.
Henry Drummond
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.
Jean Nathan Mille
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
Victor Daniels
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
The city is the teacher of the man.
Simondes of Ceos
Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Robert Frost
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
Sophocles, Antigone
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert Benchley
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
Publilius Syrus
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.
Fred Waggone
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.
George Bernard Shaw
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Unknown
If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we BUILD to that.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin
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
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
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
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
Louis A. Berman
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith