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A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

And the lesson is that I should always wear these, so no one asks me to do anything crazy like climb onto a roof. ~Jaime Vegas on why she wears three inch heels on a mission

And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson It's times like this that make you

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

As we speak, that is what we are doing. Projects that come to you are not written for you. We have to take a lesson from Will Smith, who develops projects he can shine in. We're trying to develop things from the ground up.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

A student is almost always feeling motivated to practice, if he leaves his lesson feeling capable

A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.

Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.

Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.

Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Between Ron Paul and Rick Perry, I think the lesson is don't get sick in Texas.

Biggest lesson? Discovering that the less I think about myself and the more I think about what I can do for others, the more I get out of life. Ultimately, it makes me a happier person. You have to give it away if you want to get it back. After all, humility isn't thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!

But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.