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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? | Who must have a lot of things? | ||
Tea is nothing but<br/> | Tea is nothing but<br/> | ||
Boiling water<br/> | Boiling water<br/> | ||
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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/> | ||
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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/> | ||
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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/> | ||
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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/> | ||
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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/> | ||
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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. | ||
[[Category:Tea]] | [[Category:Tea]] | ||