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 Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.  ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir


Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy.  [Coffee] is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so.  From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat.  ~Author Unknown


Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend.  ~Author Unknown


This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion.  Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place.  Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind.  The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters.  Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.  ~Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"


A morning without coffee is like sleep.  ~Author Unknown


I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.  ~Flash Rosenberg


Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.  ~Author Unknown


Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.  ~Bob Irwin


Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich.  ~Author Unknown


No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odour to the nostrils.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


Coffee has two virtues:  it is wet and warm.  ~Dutch Proverb


Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.  ~Alphonse Allais


Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.  ~Prince Tallyrand


Coffee, n.  break fluid.  ~Author Unknown


Behind every successful woman... is a substantial amount of coffee.  ~Stephanie Piro


If it ain't caffeinated, it ain't coffee!  ~Author Unknown


Coffee and tobacco are complete repose.  ~Turkish Proverb


Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.  ~Alexander King


Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.  ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674


Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.  ~Jonathan Swift


The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.  ~Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995


Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:  alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.  ~Alex Levine


Given enough coffee, I could rule the world.  ~Author Unknown


I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.  ~John Van Druten

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