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. – Anon.
Chocolate, men, coffee – some things are better rich. – Anon.
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. – Diane Ackerman
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. – Honore de Balzac
Coffee falls into the stomach … ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop … the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink… – Honore de Balzac
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. – Dave Barry
Among the numerous luxuries of the table…coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions…is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. – Benjamin Franklin
Or to some coffee-house I stray, For news, the manna of the day, And from the hipp – Matthew Green
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. – Samuel Johnson
Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat. – Alex Levine
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. – Abraham Lincoln
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit. – George Mikes
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. – Thomas De Quincey
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. – Agnes Repplier
