wrote, “It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a
. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.”
Anonymous
Quote: Espresso is to Italy what champagne is to France.
A Jamaican proverb states, “You can’t take the milk back from the coffee.”
The 1674 Women’s Petition Against Coffee stated that, “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 1883 Buckeye Cookbook stated that, Physicians say that coffee without cream is more wholesome, particularly for persons of weak digestion. There seems to be some element in the coffee which combined with the milk, forms a leathery coating on the stomach, and impairs digestion.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh said that, “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote that “The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.”
Anonymous Quote: I don’t have a problem with caffeine, I have a problem without caffeine.
Bobby Heenan said, “This guy makes coffee nervous.”
Anonymous Quote: The best gourmet coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.
In 1722, Jonathan Swift stated that, “Coffee makes us severe and grave and philosophical.”
In a 1994 New York Times, Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide wrote, “We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.”
Anonymous Quote: “Retirement is one great big giant gourmet coffee break.”
In You’re So Vain, Carly Simon sang, “I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.”
Ronald Reagan commented, “I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
Anomymous Quote: Don’t drink coffee in the morning. It will keep you awake until noon.”
In the 1692 book The Good Hous-Wife Made A Doctor, Thomas Tyron (1634-1703) wrote, “In a word, coffee is the drunkard’s settle-brain, the fool’s pastime, who admires it for being the production of Asia, and is ravished with delight when he hears the berries grow in the deserts of Arabia, but would not give a farthing for a hogshead of it, if it were to be had on Hampstead Heath or Banstead-Downs.”
A November, 1949 New York Times stated that, “Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip, and low comedy.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) wrote, “Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?”
Anonymous Quote: “Given enough premium gourmet coffee, I could rule the world.”
Isidore Bourdon said, “The discovery of coffee has enlarged the realm of illusion and given more promise to hope.”
In A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain wrote that “The average American’s simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
In 1891, writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. stated that, “The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu wrote that, “The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.”
Anonymous Quote: “Caffeine isn’t a drug, it’s a vitamin.”
It was Wallace Stevens who wrote”
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair.
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
Upon a rug mingle to dissipate
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice
Edna Lewis, the author of The Taste of Country Cooking, stated that “The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.
In his Kaffee-Kantate, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) wrote that, “Without my morning coffee I’m just like a dried up piece of roast goat.”
In The Black Orchid, Anthony Quinn wrote, “See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.
Anonymous Quote: I make serious premium gourmet coffee-so strong it wakes up the neighbors.
In 1777, Prussia’s Frederick the Great wrote that, “It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
In 1991, Joan Frank wrote, “Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.”
Anonymous Quote: “What do you mean ‘I burnt the oatmeal’? That’s COFFEE!”
In the 1973 Mrs. October Was Here, Coleman Dowell states, “It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffeecup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one’s inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.”
Stephanie Piro said, Behind every successful woman… is a substantial amount of coffee.”
Henry Ward Beecher stated that, “No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils."
John Van Druten said, “I think if I were a woman I’d wear coffee as a perfume.”
Motivated Worker Concept: Office automation-networked coffee machines.
Anonymous Quote: “You know what separates humans from animals? Gourmet Coffee!”
Harper Lee said, “I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.”
Bella Abzug recalled, “I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.”
In his 1963 speech entitled Malcolm X Message to the Grass Roots Speech, Malcolm X stated, “It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.”
In his 1985 The Adding Machine, Remembering Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs wrote, “Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time.”
In Eyes and Ears, Henry Ward Beecher stated, “A cup of coffee-real coffee-home browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.”
Anonymous Quote: “This coffee tastes like mud! Well, it was ground this morning.”
Drew Sirtors claims that, “Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.”
A comment on Star Trek: Voyager opined, “Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.”
Anonymous Quote: Man does not live by premium gourmet coffee alone. Have a danish!
Larie Colwin wrote, “On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass…and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.”
Anomymous: Forever - Time it takes to brew the first pot of coffee in the morning.
Samuel Goldwyn wrote, “Coffee is not my cup of tea.”
Murphy’s Law states, “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 Quote: “Morning doesn’t begin until after your second cup of premium gourmet coffee.”
Bill Cosby said, “Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffeeand obituaries.”
Dr. Johnson in The Life of Pope states, “His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.”
Anonymous Quote: “Do I like my gourmet coffee black? There are other colors?”
In Mary, Mary, Jean Kerr said that, “Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?”
Albert Einstein said that, “A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Anonymous Quote: The first cup of gourmet coffee recapitulates phylogeny.
Alexander King stated, “Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis-a good hot cup of coffee.”
Anonymous Quote: “Go ahead… Make my premium gourmet coffee.”
The 1699 book England’s Happiness Improved stated that “Moderately drunk, coffee removes vapours from the brain, occasioned by fumes of wine, or other strong liquors; eases pains in the head, prevents sour belchings, and provokes appetite.”
Ken Hutchinson of Starsky and Hutch said, “Wine is for aging, not coffee.”
Anonymous Quote: “Just bring me my premium gourmet coffee, and s-l-o-w-l-y back away.”
Harry Mahtar said, “I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.”
K. Hubbard said that, “Nothing’ll make a father swear before the children
quicker than a cup of poor coffee.”
Definition of a Computer Programmer: An person who turns software into coffee.
Anonymous Quote: “Caffeine-The other Vitamin C”
Jessi Lane Adams said that, “Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.”
Someone once said that, “Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.”
Anonymous Quote: “All the gourmet coffee in Columbia won’t make me a morning person.”
Murphy’s Law states, “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 Quote: “Drink your premium gourmet coffee strong and black, you’ll never be latte!”
It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Anonymous Quote: “Don’t laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.”
Burt Lancaster stated, “I judge a restaurant by the bread and the coffee.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1859) said, “Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.”
Anonymous Quote: “Many people are like instant coffee: the minute they get in hot water they dissolve.”
In Star Trek: Voyager Think Tank, Neelix asks, “Do you want me to prepare a hypospray so you can absorb the caffeine more directly?”
Anonymous Quote: “It is by premium gourmet coffee alone I set my mind in motion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.”
.An old
Arabic saying about
coffee states, “The first cup is for the guest, the second for enjoyment, the third for the sword.”
Comedian Dave Barry quipped, “It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte said, “I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.”
Anonymous Quote: “Life is too short for bad coffee.”
Captain Janeway in Voyage: The Cloud said, “I don’t want anything better, I want coffee.”
A 1511 Arabic poem opines, “O Coffee, thou dost dispel all care, thou art the object of desire to the scholar.”
Anonymous Quote: “An American will go to hell for a bag of premium gourmet coffee.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1859) wrote that “As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…things remembered arrive at full gallop…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.”