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Line 149: − + − <br/>+ − + − + − <br/>+ − + − <br/>+ − + − + − − <br/> − + − <br/> − The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, <br/> − curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, <br/> − unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, <br/> − gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, <br/> − and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly. − == Various people ==+ − − A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. − :~Eleanor Roosevelt − <br/> − tea leaves<br/> − tea loves<br/> − loves tea<br/> − lives tea<br/> − leaves tea?<br/> − never.<br/> − :~Uniek Swain − <br/> − Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. − :~Alice Walker − <br/> − I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. − :~Moby − <br/> − If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. − :~Abraham Lincoln − <br/> − − :~Bill Maher − <br/> − When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. − :~Audrey Hepburn − <br/> − In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. − :~Sydney Smith − <br/> − To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. − :~Henry David Thoreau − <br/> − Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. − :~Henry Fielding − <br/> − Tea should be taken in solitude... − :~C.S. Lewis − <br/> − You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. − :~C. S. Lewis − <br/> − If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert. − :~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh − <br/> − That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. − :~Elie Wiesel − <br/> − Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. − :~Catherine Douzel − <br/> − A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. − :~A. Milne
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
:~Eleanor Roosevelt
tea leaves<br/>
tea loves<br/>
loves tea<br/>
lives tea<br/>
leaves tea?<br/>
never.<br/>
:~Uniek Swain
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
:~Alice Walker
I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.
:~Moby
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
:~Abraham Lincoln
The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.
:~Bill Maher
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
:~Audrey Hepburn
In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.
:~Sydney Smith
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
:~Henry David Thoreau
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
:~Henry Fielding
Tea should be taken in solitude...
:~C.S. Lewis
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
:~C. S. Lewis
If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
:~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
:~Elie Wiesel
Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
:~Catherine Douzel
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
:~A. Milne
== Japanese ==
== Japanese ==
That will do quite well. <br/>
That will do quite well. <br/>
How much does he lack himself<br/>
How much does he lack himself<br/>
Who must have a lot of things?<br/>
Who must have a lot of things?
Tea is nothing but<br/>
Tea is nothing but<br/>
Boiling water<br/>
Boiling water<br/>
This is the only rule<br/>
This is the only rule<br/>
You should know.<br/>
You should know.<br/>
Though I sweep and sweep<br/>
Though I sweep and sweep<br/>
Everywhere my garden path, <br/>
Everywhere my garden path, <br/>
On the slim pine needles still<br/>
On the slim pine needles still<br/>
Specks of dirt may be found.<br/>
Specks of dirt may be found.<br/>
If you have one pot<br/>
If you have one pot<br/>
And can make your tea in it<br/>
And can make your tea in it<br/>
How much does he lack himself<br/>
How much does he lack himself<br/>
Who must have a lot of things?<br/>
Who must have a lot of things?<br/>
When you hear the splash<br/>
When you hear the splash<br/>
Of the water drops that fall<br/>
Of the water drops that fall<br/>
You will feel that all the dust<br/>
You will feel that all the dust<br/>
Of your mind is washed away<br/>.
Of your mind is washed away<br/>.
Though many people drink tea, <br/>
Though many people drink tea, <br/>
if you do not know the Way of Tea, <br/>
if you do not know the Way of Tea, <br/>
you think you are drinking tea, <br/>
you think you are drinking tea, <br/>
but actually tea drinks you up.<br/>
but actually tea drinks you up.<br/>
The Way of Tea is naught but this: <br/>
The Way of Tea is naught but this: <br/>
first you boil water, then you make the tea and drink it. <br/>
first you boil water, then you make the tea and drink it. <br/>
=== Lu Yu ===
=== Lu Yu ===
Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven.<br/>
Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven.
The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable.<br/>
The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable.
It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.<br/>
It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.
Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.<br/>
Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; <br/>
Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.
dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, <br/>
awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.<br/>
The clouds above us join and separate,
The clouds above us join and separate,
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?<br/>
Who can stop us from celebrating?
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly.
The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.
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