A Cup of Tea

The tea I drink has different quotes printed out on the tags of each teabag. I thought I’d share some of the ones I thought were worth keeping:

When God made time, He made enough of it.
     Celtic Saying

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
     Hugo De Groot (1583 – 1645)

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
     Moshe Dayan (1915 – 1981)

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
     Alfred Adler (1870 – 1937)

First think, and then act.
     Wise Saying from the Orient

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
     Saadi (1184 – 1291)

A witty saying proves nothing.
     Voltaire (1694 – 1778)

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
     Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
     Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 – 1928)

All human actions have one of more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
     Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
     Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
     Booker T. Washington (1856 – 1915)

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
     Sir Frances Darwin (1848 – 1925)