quotations about coffee
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
My birthstone is a coffee bean.
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
The coffee, when he tried it, was strong almost to the point of being unbearable, but not quite. In short, it was divine.
K.A. BEFORD
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
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 is the world's most valuable trading commodity after oil.
ANTONY WILD
Coffee: A Dark History
Coffee offers connoisseurship at a good price, without pretension.
KENNETH DAVIDS
Coffee: A Guide to Buying
I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.
JOHN VAN DRUTEN
The Voice of the Turtle
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
EARL WILSON
attributed, Java: How to Program
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
The morning cup of coffee has an exhiliration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
Over the Teacups
The next time you walk by a coffee shop, peer inside. Take in the variety of people in line or seated. Men and women in business attire. Parents with strollers. College students studying. High school kids joking. Couples deep in conversation. Retired folks reading newspapers and talking politics. And, of course, scores of people sitting in front of laptops searching, downloading, listening, reading and writing books, blogs, business plans, résumés, letters, e-mails, instant messages, texts ... whatever their hearts desire. Consider how many of those people furiously clicking away on keyboards and scribbling ideas on napkins might be working to create the next Google, Alibaba, or Facebook, or composing a novel or a piece of music. Maybe they're falling in love with someone sitting next to them. Or making a friend.
HOWARD SCHULTZ
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
To many people, decaffeinated coffee is like a car without an engine--it might look good on the surface, but it won't get you where you want to go.
SUSAN GILBERT
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting And Running A Coffeebar
How you want your coffee?... Here we take it black as night, sweet as sin.
NEIL GAIMAN
American Gods
I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
EDDIE IZZARD
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Great British Humour
People love coffee because of its two-fold effect--the pleasurable sensation and the increased efficiency it produces.
WILLIAM HARRISON UKERS
All About 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
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
I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.
GARY LARSON
The PreHistory of the Far Side
The aroma of coffee is a return to and a bringing back of first things because it is the offspring of the primordial. It's a journey, begun thousands of years ago, that still goes on.
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Memory for Forgetfulness