Tea Quotes
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
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 English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form 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.Gaius Petronius
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.John Vance Cheney
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richte
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.George MacDonald
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
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
Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.Anon.
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
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.Marie Curie
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.Unknown
No need to teach an eagle to fly.Greek Prove
The scars of others should teach us caution.Saint Jerome, Lette
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.Louis - Hector Berlioz
To teach is to learn twice.Jeseph Joubert
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.William A. Ward
Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities.Tony Blair, Speech to the Labor Party Conference 3 October 1995
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. Dickson
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan".
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.Gore Vidal
Live truth instead of professing it.Elbert Hubbard
Live to the point of tears.Albert Camus
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.Bruce Lee
Anglo - Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.William Jennings Bryan
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjld
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.Denis Watley
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
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.Mary Queen of Scots
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.Joseph Conrad
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.Kabbalah
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
What would the world do without tea? - How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.Sydney Smith
The holy passion of Friendship is 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
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown