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 had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
CARLY SIMON
"You're So Vain"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm just waiting to see if my coffee chooses to use its powers for good or evil today ...
ANONYMOUS
My birthstone is a coffee bean.
ANONYMOUS
I put coffee in my coffee.
ANONYMOUS
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