COFFEE QUOTES III
quotations about coffee
My birthstone is a coffee bean.
ANONYMOUS
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
After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.
MARK TWAIN
A Tramp Abroad
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
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
New York Post, Nov. 29, 1962
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
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
Coffee time
My dreamy friend
It's coffee time
Let's sing
This silly
Little rhyme
And have
A cup of coffee
NATALIE COLE
"Coffee Time", Still Unforgettable
He was my cream, and I was his coffee -- and when you poured us together, it was something.
JOSEPHINE BAKER
attributed, Remembering Josephine
Only thing worse than bad coffee is bad cold coffee.
JERRY TRAVIS
The Black Widow
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 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
People assume because I'm a coffee expert I drink lots of coffee. I can't. It takes me half an hour to brew my perfect cup. Do the math. I simply don't have time to drink more.
KEVIN SINNOTT
The Art and Craft of Coffee
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
ALFRED RENYI
attributed, My Brain Is Open
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
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
I put coffee in my coffee.
ANONYMOUS
Coffee offers connoisseurship at a good price, without pretension.
KENNETH DAVIDS
Coffee: A Guide to Buying
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Glory Road
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