Quotes
Quotes about Tea
Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them,--thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.
He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
In the best of possible worlds the château of monseigneur the baron was the most beautiful of châteaux, and madame the best of possible baronesses.
Ye sons of France, awake to glory!
Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise!
Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Life is the apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, to the steady diminution of our claims, of our hopes, of our powers, of our liberty.
I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
Without doubt
I can teach crowing: for I gobble.
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditations.
To keep my hands from picking and stealing.
Human beings are defined by freedom of choice. Once you have them doing what theyre told is good just because theyre going to get a lump of sugar instead of a kick up the ahss (?!) then ethnics no longer exists. The state could tell them it was good to go off and mug and rape and kill some other nation.
Some men's sexual limit is the pit. Its rage can find a counterpart in how they mangle, tear and rape their art.
'There has to be eternal chastisement. That means eternal life.' 'A bit one-sided, all stick, no sugar. Listen, we're all sent to one big bedroom. Hitler undivided from John the twenty-third, the innocent and guilty, raped and rapist, with no cup of tea or orange juice to wake us up'.
Manhatten's an island, really, and it can't move outwards, so to speak, so it's got to move up instead.
I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of as a novelist who writes music on the side
Elgar would teach me symphonic structure, Holst the use of a large orchestra
No teacher is a pessimist
So freezing people on a cooling star envy the Indians, who rarely freeze but die instead from other maladies
Home. I felt the promise of the prick of tears at the word, sentimental, noble, nostalgic, yearning
