Quotes
Quotes about Tea
Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
To teach is to learn twice.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -Maria Montessori, Italian educator (1870-1952)
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifthâteaching others.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Even for our enemies in misery--there should be tears in our eyes.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
