The Tea-Mobile

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Quotations About Tea!

Top off the tea... it lubricates the grey matter.  ~Good Neighbors, quoted from stashtea.com
 
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.  ~Terri Guillemets
 
Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings!  ~Author Unknown
 
Tea, although an Oriental
Is a gentleman at least;
Cocoa is a cad and coward,
Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
~G.K. Chesterton, "The Song of Right and Wrong"
 
Tea is instant wisdom - just add water!  ~Astrid Alauda
 
Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.  ~Colley Cibber, Lady's Last Stake
 
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.  ~Billy Connolly
 
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.  ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"
 
Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.  ~T'ien Yiheng
 
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.  ~Sydney Smith
 
Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.  ~Chinese Proverb
 
There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.  ~Bernard-Paul Heroux
 
If you are cold, tea will warm you.  If you are too heated, it will cool you.  If you are depressed, it will cheer you.  If you are excited, it will calm you.  ~Gladstone, 1865
 
We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
~Rudyard Kipling
 
Tea is a cup of life.  ~Author Unknown
 
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.  ~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
 
Tea should be taken in solitude.  ~C.S. Lewis
 
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.  ~Japanese Proverb
 
Tea is liquid wisdom.  ~Anonymous
 
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.  ~Thich Nat Hahn
 
Tea...is a religion of the art of life.  ~Okakura
 
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.  ~George Orwell, "A Nice Cup of Tea"
 
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.  ~A.A. Milne
 
The first cup moistens my lips and throat.  The second cup breaks my loneliness.  The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs.  The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration - all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores.  At the fifth cup I am purified.  The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals.  The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more!  I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves.  Where is Elysium?  Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.  ~Lu Tung, "Tea-Drinking"
 
Coffee is not my cup of tea.  ~Author Unknown
 
tea leaves
tea loves
loves tea
lives tea
leaves tea?
never.
~Uniek Swain
 
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 swept by rain.  ~Lu Yu