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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 ==


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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?<br/>
Who must have a lot of things?


Tea  is nothing but<br/>
Tea  is nothing but<br/>
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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.
== 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/>
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
<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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