Tea

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?--how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. ~ Sydney Smith

Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yiheng

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~Author Unknown

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith

Tea is a cup of life. ~Author Unknown

The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right. ~Terri Guillemets

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

Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. ~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

The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. ~George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb

Tea is liquid wisdom. ~Anonymous

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"

Tea does our fancy aid,Repress those vapours which the head invadeAnd keeps that palace of the soul serene.~Edmund Waller, "Of Tea"

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A.A. Milne

Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings! ~Author Unknown

Tea is instant wisdom - just add water! ~Astrid Alauda

I am in no way interested in immortality,but only in the taste of tea. ~Lu tung

Tea is wealth itself, because there is nothing that cannot be lost,no problem that will not disappear, no burden that will not float away, between the first sip and the last. ~The Minister of Leaves

"Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one." ~Ancient Chinese Proverb

"Come, oh come, ye tea-thirsty restless ones—the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically." ~Rabindranath Tagore

"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

"I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues." ~James Boswell

"A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water."~Eleanor Roosevelt

And, my personal favorite:

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis
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