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Coffee Quotes

May 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Some coffee quotes:

  • Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. - Turkish proverbs
  • A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos, 1913-1996, mathematician
  • A morning without coffee is like sleep. - Author Unknown
  • Among the numerous luxuries of the table…coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions…is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. - Benjamin Franklin
  • Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover. -Oscar,Glory Road
  • Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -Alphonse Allais
  • Coffee isn’t my cup of tea - Samuel Goldwyn
  • Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water. - The Women’s Petition Against Coffee, 1674
  • Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. - Jonathan Swift
  • Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister. -Bob Irwin
  • Given enough coffee, I could rule the world. - Author Unknown
  • Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something. - Josephine Baker
  • I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. -Flash Rosenberg
  • I have measured out my life with coffee spoons - T.S. Eliot
  • I like my coffee like I like my women- Black and Strong. - Paul Howell (2005)
  • I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. - Steven Wright
  • I think if I were a woman I’d wear coffee as a perfume. - John Van Druten
  • If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
  • Is it impossible to get a cup of coffee-flavoured coffee, anymore, in this country? What happened with the coffee? Did I miss a … meeting with the coffee, huh? You can get every other flavour except coffee-flavoured coffee! - Denis Leary
  • Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don’t look for anything else. - said to be Bertrand Russell’s last words
  • No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness. - Sheik Abd al-Qadir
  • Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. -Alex Levine
  • The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself. -Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
  • This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder. - Honore de Balzac, “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee”
  • When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army - Honore de Balzac

Some Sources: Quoteland, QuoteGarden, Wikiquote.

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