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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. | A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. | ||
:~Eleanor Roosevelt | :~Eleanor Roosevelt | ||
tea leaves<br/> | tea leaves<br/> | ||
tea loves<br/> | tea loves<br/> | ||
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never.<br/> | never.<br/> | ||
:~Uniek Swain | :~Uniek Swain | ||
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. | Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. | ||
:~Alice Walker | :~Alice Walker | ||
I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. | I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. | ||
:~Moby | :~Moby | ||
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. | If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. | ||
:~Abraham Lincoln | :~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. | 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 | :~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. | 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 | :~Audrey Hepburn | ||
In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. | In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. | ||
:~Sydney Smith | :~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. | 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 | :~Henry David Thoreau | ||
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. | Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. | ||
:~Henry Fielding | :~Henry Fielding | ||
Tea should be taken in solitude... | Tea should be taken in solitude... | ||
:~C.S. Lewis | :~C.S. Lewis | ||
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. | You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. | ||
:~C. S. Lewis | :~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. | 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 | :~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. | 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 | :~Elie Wiesel | ||
Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. | Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. | ||
:~Catherine Douzel | :~Catherine Douzel | ||
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. | A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. | ||
:~A. Milne | :~A. Milne | ||
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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? | Who must have a lot of things? | ||
Tea is nothing but<br/> | Tea is nothing but<br/> | ||