| Quotations for Beanheads |
| The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks. Sir James Mackintosh |
| Coffee is real good when you drink it it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup. Gertrude Stein |
| Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. Alex Levine |
| I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. Elliot |
| If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage. Sydney Smith |
| Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. Jonathan Swift, 1722 |
| Coffee causes] an excessive state of brain-excitation which becomes manifest by a remarkable loquaciousness sometimes accompanied by accelerated association of ideas. It may also be observed in coffee house politicians who drink cup after cup ... and by this abuse are inspired to profound wisdom on all earthly events. Lewis Lewin, Phantastica: Narcotic and Stimulating Drugs (1931) |
| Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. - Isak Dinesen |
| 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. |
| 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 discovery of coffee has enlarged the realm of illusion and given more promise to hope. Isidore Bourdon |
| I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course. Harper Lee |
| Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca. Ingrid Bergman |
| The legions of us who are dedicated coffee drinkers--decaf for the wary, full strength for the daring--have one great problem with our drink of choice (notice, I did not say "habit"). No, it's not "coffee nerves" or "caffein blitz"--it's losing our coffee cups. We put them down, turn around to do something--and the cups are gone! We look around suspiciously--no one is there, no one is playing a trick on us, we know we just put the cup down, right there, and now it's gone. An international gang of coffee cup thieves with split-second cunning? Some ancient curse having to do with the ceramic composition of the mug? Some once-in-a-million precise scientific combination of coffee bean and water that has made the whole thing disappear into another dimension of time and space? A mischievous imp from hell sent to plague us? I tell you, it's eerie--as any other serious coffee drinker will attest. Jerry Huckaby |
| Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure. Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. Talleyrand |
| I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless. Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The first cup is for the guest, the second for enjoyment, the third for the sword. An old Arabic saying. |
| Although they be destitute of taverns, they have their coffa-houses, which something resemble them. They sit there chatting most of the day and sip a drink called 'coffa' in little china dishes as hot as they can suffer it: black as soot, and tasting not much unlike it. George Sandys, describing Turkish drinking habits in 1610, |
| Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring. U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849 |
| It occurs to me it is ridiculous to write about coffee. It is ridiculous to refer to a paper cup of gas-station coffee as "gorgeous." Bryan Chambala |
| Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too. D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia. |
| Prague café culture was a pivotal element of Kafka’s life and an inspiration to his writing. The characters in his novels and short stories are often coffee drinkers. Kafka's writing often instills in the reader a jumpy and jittery feeling of having drank one coffee too many. Alex Scofield |
Nancy Astor: "If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee."
Sir Winston Churchill: "And if I were your husband, I would drink it." |
| Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring. U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849 |
| The little campfires, rapidly increasing to hundreds in number, would shoot up along the hills and plains, and as if by magic, acres of territory would be illuminous with them. Soon they would be surrounded by the soldiers, who made it an inevitable rule to cook their coffee first. John D. Bilings |
| Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip. Pope Leo XII |
| A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time. Leonhard Rauwolf |
| Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake in the afternoon. Jilly Cooper |
| Many people are like instant coffee: the minute they get in hot water they dissolve. |
| If it wasn't for coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all. David Letterman |
| I never laugh until I've had my coffee. Clark Gable |
| See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor. Anthony Quinn |
| Wine is for aging, not coffee." Ken Hutchinson, Starsky and Hutch |
| 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 |
| Make my coffee like I like my men: hot, black, and strong." - Willona Wood, Good Times |
| Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility. Sheik Abd-al-Kadi |
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 |
