Quotes About Lesson

First lesson," Jon said. "Stick them with the pointy end.

Later, Maester Luwin built a little pottery boy and dressed him in Bran's clothes and flung him off the wall into the yard below, to demonstrate what would happen to Bran if he fell. That had been fun, but afterward Bran just looked at the maester and said, "I'm not made of clay. And anyhow, I never fall.

In this world, a man must learn to seize whatever gifts the gods chose to send him. That was a lesson I learned at some cost. I offer it to you as a sign of my good faith.

But manners there be of our conjunction three, The first is called by Philosophers diptative, The which betwixt the agent and patient must be, Male and female, mercury, and sulphur vive Matter and form, thin and thick to thrive, This lesson will help thee without any doubt, And our conjunction truly to bring about.

I appreciate failure. Failure means that an attempt was made, and a lesson can be learned. As long as we're alive after the effort, there is a chance for success the next time around.

Human tragedies are always simple when we reconsider them in retrospect.

Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, T shall never, never forget!' 'You will, though,'the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never forget." "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

A good example is the best sermon.

If ... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Eggs cannot be unscrambled.

Pain gives you the memory of things you shouldn't do.

You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Life would be awfully dull if we could look back without regretting at least one affair.

we are all sorry when we are discovered. Then we are very sorry.It's not the question if we're sorry. The question is did we draw a lesson? The question is: what are we going to do now, when we're sorry?

No se le escapa la ironía, a saber, que el que va a enseñar aprende la lección más profunda, mientras que quienes van a aprender no aprenden nada.