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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

tea loves

loves tea

lives tea

leaves tea?

never.

:~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

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.

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== Japanese ==

Architecture is basically a container of something.

I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

:~Yoshio Taniguchi

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.

:~Japanese Proverb

=== Sen no Rikyū ===

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=== Lu Yu ===

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven.

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.

Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.

Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.

The clouds above us join and separate,

The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.

Life is like that, so why not relax?

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.

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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
+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.
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 == Japanese ==
+Architecture is basically a container of something. <br/>
+I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
+:~Yoshio Taniguchi
+If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
+:~Japanese Proverb
 === Sen no Rikyū ===
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 === Lu Yu ===
- Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven.
+Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven.
- The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable.
+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.
- Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
+Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
- Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.
+Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.
- The clouds above us join and separate,
+The clouds above us join and separate,
 The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.
 Life is like that, so why not relax?
 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 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.
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