Tea Quotes

Socrates - children today are tyrants. they contradict their...
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
Confucius
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
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Henry Maudsley
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
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Martin Barzun
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Jack handey deep thoughts - instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about...
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 true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
Saying Folk
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
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
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults - Yet faults tear away the perfection in you.
Mary Ross
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
Good teaching is one - Fourth preparation and three - Fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
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
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
Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Anonymous teache
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson
The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
Ogden Nash
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
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles, Antigone
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
Indian Prove
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
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
Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Richard Bach
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Kelle
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
Adolf Hitle
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Mrs. Sigourney