Quotes
Quotes about Tea
To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave, Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save; So peace instead of death let us bring; But yield, proud foe, let us bring; With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?
Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.
It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor.
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers."
Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
What, man! more water glideth by the mill That wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know: Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother, Better then he have worn Vulcan's badge.
The cure for anything is salt waterâ sweat, tears, or the sea.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.
