Tea Quotes
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.Haniel Long
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.Mary Queen of Scots
My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.Peter Stack, in a movie review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2, 1983
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
Live truth instead of professing it.Elbert Hubbard
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
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
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.Elizabeth Drew
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
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.Walt Disney
You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.Galileo Galilei
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.Jerry Coleman
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.John Vance Cheney
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 loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.Ed Howe
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.Mark Twain, Mark Twain In Eruption
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.Louis A. Berman
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.Victor Daniels
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - - That doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.Buddha
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.Johann von Goethe
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
History is philosophy teaching by examples.Henry St. John Bolingbroke
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
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.Maria Montessori
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.E. W. Dijkstra
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.Samuel Johnson
The years teach much which the days never knew.Ralph Waldo Emerson
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Jung
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Slow and steady wins the race.Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln
A full cup must be carried steadily.English Prove
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Elbert Hubbard
