Many people are like instant coffee: the minute they get in hot water they dissolve. - Anonymous

A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent. - Anonymous

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

A morning without coffee is like sleep. - Author Unknown

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

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.
- Author Unknown

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

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. - Author Unknown

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

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

The first cup is for the guest, the second for enjoyment, the third for the sword. - An old Arabic saying

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

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

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

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

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
1754-1838 speaking of the perfect cup of coffee.

Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever. - David Letterman

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

I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.
- From the television show Will and Grace

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

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

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"

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

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

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovlier than a thousand kisses, sweeter than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee...
- Johann Sebastian Bach,
in an aria from his 'Kaffee-Kantate'

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.
- Sir James MacKintosh,
18th century philosopher

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

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

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,
in A Tramp Abroad.

I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. - Turkish Proverb

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 Make my coffee like I like my men: hot,