What would we do without coffee? I don’t even want to think about it.
Here, we’ve pulled together some of our favorite quotes about coffee, that perfect caffeinated beverage. Some of these quotes are pretty funny, but they all profess a love I think we can all understand.
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“Life begins after coffee. - Unknown
“The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks. - James Mackintosh
“I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee. - Clark Gable
“No work would be possible without coffee. - Henning Mankell
“If it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever. - David Letterman
“We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup. - Jerry Seinfeld
“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? - Anthony Trollope
“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
“A yawn is a silent scream for coffee. - Unknown
“I don’t really like coffee, she said, but I don’t really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. - Brian Andreas
“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. - Lewis Black
“I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee. - Lisa Renee Jones
“I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. - Flash Rosenberg
“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all. - David Lynch
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T.S. Eliot
“Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis – a good hot cup of coffee. - Alexander King
“The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day. - Haruki Murakami
“Coffee is 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
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. - Virginia Woolf
“Everybody should believe in something. I believe I’ll have another coffee. - Unknown
“Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don’t look for anything else. - Bertrand Russell
“Coffee. The favorite drink of the civilized world. - Thomas Jefferson
“Cigarettes and coffee, man, that’s a combination. - Iggy Pop
“No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness. - Sheik-Abd-al-Kadir
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? - Albert Camus
“Without my morning coffee I’m just like a dried up piece of roast goat. - Johann Sebastian Bach
“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be? - Cassandra Clare
“There’s nothing sweeter than a cup of bitter coffee. - Rian Aditia
“Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility. - Sheik-Abd-al-Kadir
“But first, coffee… - Unknown
“Coffee. Creative lighter fluid. - Floyd Maxwell
“Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven. - Jesse Lane Adams
“They pondered the importance of coffee in silence. - Henning Mankell
“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
“It doesn’t matter where you’re from – or how you feel… There’s always peace in a strong cup of coffee. - Gabriel Bá
“Coffee. The most important meal of the day. - Unknown
“Coffee is a language in itself. - Jackie Chan
“I can’t stop drinking the coffee. I stop drinking the coffee, I stop doing the standing and the walking and the words-putting-into-sentence doing. - Amy Sherman
“No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for “Before Coffee." - Cherise Sinclair
“Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept those I cannot. - Unknown
“I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now. - Louisa May Alcott
“Life is too short for bad coffee. - Unknown
“Come on, don’t you ever stop and smell the coffee? - Justina Chen
“I think if I were a woman I’d wear coffee as a perfume. - John Van Drute
“There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women… - Orsen Welles
“I don’t have a problem with caffeine. I have a problem without caffeine! - Unknown
“What do you want? Just coffee. Black – like my soul. - Cassandra Clare
“Coffee.. A magical substance that turns “leave me alone” into “good morning honey.” - Unknown
“I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism. - Abigail Reynolds
“Water is the most important element in life… because without it you can’t make coffee. - Carrie Bradshaw
“It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. - Malcolm X
“He was my cream, and I was his coffee. And when you poured us together, it was something. - Josephine Baker
“Coffee: a warm, delicious alternative to hating everybody every morning forever. - Unknown
“As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing…. Just drink it black, the way God does - Clay Thompson
“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning, and wander through the city with your hand in mine. - Charlotte Eriksson
“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
“My blood type is coffee. - Unknown
“Coffee is a hug in a mug. - Unknown
“Life is a beautiful and endless journey in search of the perfect cup. - Barbara A. Daniels
“Kindness is like coffee. It awakens your spirit and improves your day. Fill your cup with both. - Unknown
“I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover. - Sandra Bullock
“Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better. - Justina Chen
“A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent. - Unknown
“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
“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“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
“You know you’ve had to much coffee when you can thread a running sewing machine. - Unknown
“I don’t think there will be enough coffee or middle fingers for this Monday. - Unknown
“You did it! Congratulations! World’s best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It’s great to be here. - WIll Ferrell