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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/>
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.
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.
I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
:~Yoshio Taniguchi
:~Yoshio Taniguchi
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
:~Japanese Proverb
:~Japanese Proverb
=== Sen no Rikyū ===
=== Sen no Rikyū ===
=== Lu Yu ===
=== 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.
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 clouds above us join and separate,
Who can stop us from celebrating?
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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