If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Sir James Mackintosh used to say, he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quantity of coffee he drank. – Sydney Smith, quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith: Volume I by his d
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
I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum
Very often, I dont make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises. – David Ogden Stiers
