Drinking Coffee Quotes

• If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

  Sydney Smith

  Coffee, Understanding, Want

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.436

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• Coffee is real good when you drink 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

  Being Yourself, Real, Coffee

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• Wake up and smell the coffee.

  Ann Landers

  Coffee, Espresso, Smell

  Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 1955.

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• Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Love, Sweet, Coffee

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• Given enough coffee I could rule the world

  Terry Pratchett

  Coffee, World, Enough

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• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Struggle, Moving

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• Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Morning, Coffee, Personality

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• The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

  James Mackintosh

  Coffee, Men, Mind

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• I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Coffee, Espresso

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• I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Coffee, Suffering, Roasting

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• Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Coffee, Communication, Memorable

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

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• 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

  Coffee, Views, Espresso

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.126, Ballantine Books

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• Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

  Alphonse Allais

  Coffee, Sleep, Espresso

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• I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

  John William Van Druten

  Food, Coffee, Thinking

  Quoted in Think, Feb 1963.

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• I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

  Jim Carrey

  Good Morning, Beautiful, Coffee

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• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  Ed O'Neill

  Mom, Teacher, Drinking

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• I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Drinking, Rain, Coffee

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• A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Perseverance, Coffee, Cups

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• 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

  Coffee, Sadness, Luxury

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• Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Coffee, World, Drink

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• Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Coffee, Eye

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. From the text of dr. Warburton. With the life of the author [by T. Cibber].”, p.92

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• The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Life Is, Drink

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1766). “Letters Written By The Late Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; And Several Of His Friends: From The Year 1703 To 1740”, p.297

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• Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.

  Craig Parker

  Drinking, Coffee, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.

  J. D. Salinger

  Coffee, Mean, Annoying

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

  Jean Kerr

  Coffee, Hands, Espresso

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