A woman is like a tea bag: you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water!

Eleanor Roosevelt

And is a favorite of Hillary Clinton....

Feel free to make a tea related quote famous or not

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

If you are cold, tea will warm you.
If you are heated, it will cool you.
If you are depressed, it will cheer you.
If you are excited, it will calm you

William E Gladstone

Hi Mary, I quite like this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea." (JOY)

Asha thank you for the fine quote~ to me tea is all those things Mr. Gladstone really had something there!

Thanks!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

Thank you Joy! I too like that one as well~ tea can be poetic in the sense that it has it's own style and seeps the way it wants to just like writers who are finding inspiration in all things around them

Tea poetry in our cups!
Mary Caliendo

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

Inspirational Chinese Writer





Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Tea Editor

May your tealeaves be fortuitous and your cups remain unstained.

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

Dear Deb!
May you also find your fortuitious-ness(is that a word? ;)and may your teacups always be shiny!

Thank you so much for the quote! Keep them coming!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

Dear Great Grand daughter!

Yes no way never be deprived one day with out tea!
Makes a world of difference! Thank you for the quote!



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Tea Editor

A quote for today:

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time
the comforts of solitude and the pleasure of company.
-Unknown


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Tea Editor

Tea quote for today:


Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~ Henry Fielding

Dear Linda, Love and scandle seems to be ever present in the news today-perhaps making tea bitter!

But putting love into anything alone is sweet!

Thank you for the nice quote! Keep them coming!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

Here's a new tea quote for today:

If man had no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty~

Japanese Proverb


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Tea Editor

From the Monty Python Flying Circus
As seen on the backs of Jackets during a sketch:

Make tea not war!

Something that should be passed around the world over!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis


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Tea Editor

''Tea is refreshing even it is hot'' I think you may never ask about warm drinking except tea.

Thank you Fleming for the tea quote!

Tea is refreshing & hydrating keep drinking tea for the health of it!


Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

To share a quote from the doormouse in Alice in Wonderland-

Twinkle, twinkle little bat,
How I wonder what you're at?
Up above the world you fly/
Like a tea tray in the sky.

How I wonder how this quote came about? Don't forget to drink your tea today!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

We had a kettle: we let it leak:
Our not repairing it made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week. . .
The bottom is out of the Universe!

from Rudyard Kipling

Sympathy, of course, but what carelessness!

Ah.. no tea that would be the bottom of the universe!

Thank you for sharing and continue to add new quotes!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three!

Mick Jagger


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Tea Editor

Tea...is a religion of the art of life.
~Okakura



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From head monk of the Lung-hsiang monestary in China that lived from 1183-1260:

"Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life."



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Tea Editor

This morning's tea make yesterday distant.

~Tanko

"Computer: Tea.....Earl Gray.....Hot."

---Jean Luc Picard, Captain of the Starship Enterprise, Star Trek The Next Generation---

Go, Cassie! I love Jean-Luc.

Actually, make that "boldly go"...

"Tea, Trudy!"

From the movie Titanic, when Rose's mother commands her maid to bring tea just to get her out of earshot of a private conversation.

Edmund Waller, 17th century English poet, poetically declared:

The Muse's friend, tea, does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapours which the head invade,
And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."

~Alice Walker

Cassie67, Ah yes! I hadn't remembered that! Gosh that was some movie: Romance, love, the high sea and tea!

It was almost perfect! Thanks for the comment! Stay in touch and keep those tea quotes coming!

Tootles!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

Mona She does it again! Yes fancy or not tea leaves us all feeling a bit better and perhaps in my case, inspired as well!

Clear head and ready for the day, a sip of tea and on my way!
Thanks


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Tea Editor

Cassie67,

What a great way to put it!

An indoor picnic by Alice Walker Just fabulous! Thanks!


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Tea Editor

"Tea is instant wisdom - just add water!"

~Astrid Alauda

Cassie67

I love it! Tea instantaneous wisdom~glad to know I'm smarter each day! Tea-heehe Tea-hee!

Keep the inspiration flowing~and the tea quotes going!


Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"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

Cassie67- The Lady does enjoy the tea, and since we are such creatures of habit~making a one hour tea habit not only agreeable but very healthful too!

Let the tea quotes flow like the water in the tea pot fills our cup!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"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

Tea the venerable liquid~during the times of Shakespear and his lady~domesticated with the kettle~


They acted and laughed but were serious in their tea!


Thou keep thine cup filled with laughter~ says I



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Tea Editor

"Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins."

Cindy Crawford

Cassie67

Even Cindy Crawford finds time to relax with her cup of tea! (*She may also know that she'll stay a bit more beautiful as a result of drinking her tea too!)

I enjoy quietness & tea as well~ meditate on silence and serenity!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"Make tea not war."

-Monty Python, Monty Python's Flying Circus

Cassie67 You are terrific!! Yes Monty Python who could forget them!

Even those goofs figured it out~that making tea is way better than war anyday!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"Tea for two, and two for tea,
Me for you, and you for me."

-Irving Caeser, "Tea for Two" - 1925

Cassie67

I'm clicking my fingers~ Tea for two and two for tea.....I think I remeber was it Shirley Temple tapping to this little song in one of her movies?

Reminds me to go put on the kettle!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"As long as it's hot and wet and goes down the right way, that's all that matters."

-The Duchess of York

"Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts."

John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895)

Welcome FrankJBN!

Thank you for joining in my tea forum! Mr. John Stuart Blackie has quite a few ideas on drinks in general~ I do like that he pegged tea as a drink for women~ but as a true tea lover I would be whining if I miss my wine too!

Keep those great quotes coming!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement."

-Arthur Gray

Dearest Cassie67

I am certain that Mr. Arthur Gray must certainly have been an avid tea drinker for he truly knows the serenity in the cup!


Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"Where there's tea, there's hope."

-Sir Arthur Pinero

Cassie67-

where there is tea there IS hope! Because tea makes us healthy and helps clear our minds in a calm way to inspire, and to give us the hope to do the next thing!

Sir Authur Pinero had something there!


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Tea Editor

"We can survive functional illiteracy or shattered windows of vulnerability, but not the demise of a decent cup of tea."

-Malachi McCormick

Cassie67-

Malachi was truly a drinker of tea~one can tell that he would make a decent cup of tea and perhaps debate the true meanings of many a book-

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"My experience convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Africa I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead."

-Theodore Roosevelt - Letter, 1912

Cassie67
Dear Mr. President Thank you for being a tea lover! Great and strong men have loved the art of tea~

Although I have heard that a wee bit of brandy may be a good thing! I'm wondering how Brandy & tea together would be??

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place."

-The Wind in the Willows

Cassie67,

You are truely in a tea zone! The Wind in the willows oh yes And he does see that tea and buns make the world a better place!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Dear Debbie, Thanks for stopping by! Wilkie Collins has the right idea! Tea & toast waits for no one~

and no one likes cold tea &cold buttered toast

I hope you've been able to sit down & relax with your toast & tea!


Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

Hi Mary.....you know me as Cassie67. Cassie was not my real name, but since I became an editor I had to come clean....LOL!

Ah ha! Foiled! I though I may have recognized you!

Happy you came by-keep stopping by!

Have a great day!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?"

-Condoleezza Rice

Hoping there's no place you'd rather be....than taking tea with me! by Mary Caliendo


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Tea Editor

"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

Dear Debbie thank you so much for the quote from the Wind in the Willows

Tea and tea drinkers are everywhere!

Please stop by more often and even add your own tea quote!

Have a happy tea long weekend!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"Stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey for the tea?"

-Rupert Brook (1887-1915), The Olde Vicarage, Grantchester

Dear Debbie,

Thanks for stopping by! It looks as if Rupert Brook was sharing tea with the lord and honey will be provided!

Thanks for sharing a tea quote please come by & share more they are fun and engaging!


Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

"I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of the fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning."

-Samuel Johnson

Dear Debbie

Samuel Johnson definitely was an around the clock indulger!

Thank you so much for the quote and keep thwm coming!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor