Coffee Quotations I

"Wine is for aging, not coffee." Ken Hutchinson, Starsky and Hutch

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." T. S. Elliot

"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 it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed." Mark Twain

"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr.

"Make my coffee like I like my men: hot, black, and strong." Willona Wood, Good Times

"Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake in the afternoon." Jilly Cooper

"Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul." Isak Dinesen

"Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery." Joan Frank, 1991

"The discovery of coffee has enlarged the realm of illusion and given more promise to hope." Isidore Bourdon

"If it wasn't for coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all." David Letterman

"You make good coffee . . . You're a slob, but you make good coffee." Cher

"See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor." Anthony Quinn

"Why don't you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I'm a little low in sugar and I don't have any cream, but it's real coffee." Barbara Streisand

"I never laugh until I've had my coffee." Clark Gable

"Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca." Ingrid Bergman

"An old Arabic saying."People are kind of like zombies in Hong Kong nowadays. You don't see that glow anymore. In terms of colour Hong Kong looks a bit grey. To counter that, I think we should give out free espresso samples to give people more caffeine; triple espresso with Irish cream syrup, iced! People just need to get a bit more wired." David Wu

"Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee!" David Letterman

"If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee." Sydney Smith,1771-1845

"Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." Turkish Proverb

"Decaf coffee is useless, warm, brown water." David Letterman

"Nescafé es no café" Juan Valdez