#tea

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret. ↗

— Kid Rock

#hard #presence #secret #steady #success

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. ↗

— Paul Rodriguez

#god #i #i think #sometimes #teaching

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. ↗

— Will Rogers

#anybody #anything #colleges #constitutional #constitutional amendment

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#bag #her #hot #hot water #how

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#change #feeling #how #past #people

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#destroy #instead #life #living #love

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#education #freight #gone #man #may

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#been #contribution #get #get together #halved

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#civilized #distinction #drawn #office #people