COFFEE QUOTES II
quotations about coffee
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
Only thing worse than bad coffee is bad cold coffee.
JERRY TRAVIS
The Black Widow
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
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
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
He was my cream, and I was his coffee -- and when you poured us together, it was something.
JOSEPHINE BAKER
attributed, Remembering Josephine
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
Sometimes I look forward to going to bed at night because I know that when I wake up, I get coffee.
ANONYMOUS
Deja Brew: The feeling that you've had this coffee before.
ANONYMOUS
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
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
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
When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.
THICH NHAT HANH
Anger: Wisdome for Cooling the Flames
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
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
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
EARL WILSON
attributed, Java: How to Program