#taught

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. ↗

— Emo Philips

#dollars #down #feel #fifth #fifty

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites. ↗

— Emo Philips

#helps #i #me #never #sites

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner. ↗

— Alessandro Del Piero

#handle #i #i can #i think #luckily

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#convinced #diplomats #foreign #future #i

If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible. ↗

— Charles Platt

#about #anything #cautious #century #impossible

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#madness #science #sublimity #taught #us

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#critic #fire #generous #poet #reason

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bending #directing #i #knowing #me

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#mom #nice #saint #she #taught

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#men #must #proposed #taught #them