COFFEE QUOTES II

quotations about coffee

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Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.

SARAH VOWELL

The Partly Clouded Patriot


I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

CARLY SIMON

"You're So Vain"


My couch is coffee-colored. I can thank Starbucks and clumsiness for that.

JAROD KINTZ

This Book Is Not for Sale


I think we all pray to the first cup of the day. It's a silent prayer, sung while the mind is still foggy and blue. "O Magic Cup," it might go, "carry me above the traffic jam. Keep me civil in the subway. And forgive my employer, as you forgive me. Amen.

STEWART LEE ALLEN

The Devil's Cup


Only thing worse than bad coffee is bad cold coffee.

JERRY TRAVIS

The Black Widow


The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Coffee is a noble brew when it is good, but when it is bad, it is horrid.

ROSEANE M. SANTOS & DARCY R. LIMA

An Unashamed Defense of Coffee


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


Coffee offers connoisseurship at a good price, without pretension.

KENNETH DAVIDS

Coffee: A Guide to Buying


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


You can't get a cup of coffee pregnant by putting cream in it.

JAMES BUFFINGTON

The Ultimate Book of Blonde, Brunette, and Redhead Jokes


He was my cream, and I was his coffee -- and when you poured us together, it was something.

JOSEPHINE BAKER

attributed, Remembering Josephine


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


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


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


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


Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

EARL WILSON

attributed, Java: How to Program


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


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


It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.

GABRIEL BA

Daytripper