Proverbs.

The cobbler should stick to his last.

Do your best. Angels can do no more.

Failure teaches success.

How about, when meditating, saying you should (lit. from dutch) 'leave you brain/mind for what it is', meaning it is irrelevant and one should pay no attention to it, or its activities. They'll fade. In one fluent sentence :p

Good one ReX. From a Beatles tune, 'Tomorrow Never Knows', translated from the Bhagavad-Gita: 'Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream.'

Actually I was asking how I could put that in one fluent sentence... :p
Oh well, I'll stick to things any linguist can tell me.

'First of all by realising that a teacher without his students is like a an egg without the chicken. It will never be hatched (if it can be layed at all).'

Layed is not correct is it? But 'if it can be lays at all' doesn't exactly sound correct either... Is it laid? A little final help please, I promise not to bother you anymore after this

I might say: "Realize that a teacher without his students is like a chicken without an egg. Nothing can be hatched, nothing will grow." I'm sure others will have further opinions.

Better a skilled farmer than a foolish philosopher.



I don't think your teacher/chicken, student/egg analogy works. Chickens lay eggs. Teachers should not "lay" students even in the vulgar sense of "have intercourse with".

One could say that both your metaphorical chicken and your metaphor have laid an egg. The past tense of "lay" is "laid", not "layed"

A teacher without students is like a hen deprived of her brood.

A teacher without students is like a sheepdog without a flock.

A teacher without students is like a terrier without rats.