COFFEE QUOTES III
quotations about coffee
If you are under the age of 30, you may not remember when coffee was only scooped out of a can, dripped from a vending machine or from a lukewarm stainless steel pot in an office break room, and served in a Styrofoam cup or a diner mug. Or when, at least in the United States, coffee was mostly inhaled for its caffeine jolt rather than savored for its exotic flavors, and the only customizations were cream and sugar.
HOWARD SCHULTZ
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Only thing worse than bad coffee is bad cold coffee.
JERRY TRAVIS
The Black Widow
Coffee reached Western Europe in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, brought by mariners who had acquired a taste for it in the Near East. It was first established at seaports, but spread rapidly to major cities inland. Considered a dangerous stimulant, it was closely monitored by municipal and royal authorities who licensed and taxed its use. They also worried about its association with those citizens who made the new coffee houses into social and political gathering places. Already in 1675, Charles II of England tried to close down the coffee houses as places of sedition (popular pressure made him desist, however), and for the next two centuries they were frequently subjected to government surveillance and suppression.
ROBERT L. HERBERT
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
Sometimes I look forward to going to bed at night because I know that when I wake up, I get coffee.
ANONYMOUS
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.
ANONYMOUS
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Eyes and Ears
I don't need to drink coffee to be awesome. I'm already awesome. But it's more fun when I'm awesome and awake.
ANONYMOUS
I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
EDDIE IZZARD
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Great British Humour
While it is true that even bad coffee is better than none, the difference between good and bad is the same as between one cent and ten thousand.
ROSEANE M. SANTOS & DARCY R. LIMA
An Unashamed Defense of Coffee
Coffee offers connoisseurship at a good price, without pretension.
KENNETH DAVIDS
Coffee: A Guide to Buying
The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.
ORHAN PAMUK
My Name is Red
Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold,
it brings to every man the feeling of luxury and nobility.
Where coffee is served, there is
grace and splendor and friendship and happiness.
All cares vanish as the coffee cup is raised to the lips.
SHEIKH ABD-AL-KADIR
In Praise of Coffee
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Coffee Lover's Soul
He was my cream, and I was his coffee -- and when you poured us together, it was something.
JOSEPHINE BAKER
attributed, Remembering Josephine
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
ALFRED RENYI
attributed, My Brain Is Open
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
New York Post, Nov. 29, 1962
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
EARL WILSON
attributed, Java: How to Program
I should also note that if coffee does not prevent or inhibit sleep, it will stimulate dream projections, and also aid you in bringing the critical faculties into the dream state.
JANE ROBERTS
The Early Sessions
She wasn't certain what the future held, but coffee would be involved if she had any say in the matter.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Moving Pictures
I put coffee in my coffee.
ANONYMOUS