"A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Virtue | 1 bookmarks

"You can plant a dream."

Campbell, Anne | Goals | 3 bookmarks

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."

Bombeck, Erma | Doctors | 3 bookmarks

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."

Fielding, Henry | Gossip | 1 bookmarks

"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

James, Henry | Tea | 1 bookmarks

"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual."

Quincey, Thomas De | Tea | 3 bookmarks

"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."

Repplier, Agnes | Tea | 1 bookmarks

"To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this."

Teiga | Contentment | 1 bookmarks

"The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy."

Storr, Anthony | Psychiatry | 1 bookmarks

"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."

Mikes, George | Tea | 1 bookmarks