Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.
We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.
I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pinthour, which sort of enforces screenkeyboard breaks.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style. . . . I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.
Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea.
A typical workday for me is getting up at about 5:00, 5:15 in the morning, getting some coffee or tea as quickly as possible, and then getting to my desk. And ideally, I'll start writing around 5:30, 5:45, and I'll write for three, four hours, and then I'll take a break, and read over what I write. Maybe about lunchtime, I'll go exercise or get out into the day. Then I'll either read over what I wrote the day before and quit work around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon and spend some time with my kids.
[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Cups of tea: People in England are always drinking cups of tea. "Oh let's have a cup of tea " they say. "That will prove we are English and not American. " Sometimes American people try to have cups of tea to pretend they are English but forget it We can always tell you are faking it
Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).
The Führer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when he is having tea with his friends during the night, or when he is training his dogs!
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.
Even the klan revamped their image by losing the hoods and changing their name to the Tea Party.
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.