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
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
CARLY SIMON
"You're So Vain"
Only thing worse than bad coffee is bad cold coffee.
JERRY TRAVIS
The Black Widow
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
People love coffee because of its two-fold effect--the pleasurable sensation and the increased efficiency it produces.
WILLIAM HARRISON UKERS
All About Coffee
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
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
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
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 the world's most valuable trading commodity after oil.
ANTONY WILD
Coffee: A Dark History
My birthstone is a coffee bean.
ANONYMOUS
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
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
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
Sometimes I look forward to going to bed at night because I know that when I wake up, I get coffee.
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
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
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