Saturday, August 29, 2009

On Coffee



Some sharp witticisms on, well, coffee, in honor of those friends whose shared company and conversation make drinking it so enjoyable.

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. - Honoré de Balzac

Nescafé no es café. (Instant coffee is not coffee.) -- Mexican saying

The morning cup of coffee has an exhiliration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! -"Coffee Cantata", J.S. Bach

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

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage. - Sydney Smith

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T. S. Elliot

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