66 Coffee Quotes to Perk You Up

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Adventure in life is good… consistency in coffee even better.” – Justina Headley

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“Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.” – Edward Abbey

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“When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.” – Honore de Balzac

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“I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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“It’s when you look over the top of your coffee cup, that you can smile at life.” – Anthony T. Hincks

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“Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.” – Alphonse Allais

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“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” – Earl Wilson

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“Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.” – Fran Drescher

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“I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don’t trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. ” – John Cusack

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“Decaf coffee only works if you throw it at people.” – Unknown

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“Why, yes, I could start my day without coffee. But I like being able to remember things like how to say words and put on pants.” – Nanea Hoffman

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“I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.” – Ronald Reagan

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“Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of goat.” – Johann Sebastian Bach

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“Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.” – Claudia Roden

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“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T.S. Eliot

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“A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.” – Marcia Carrington

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“I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?” – Anthony Trollope, The Warden

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“I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.” – Abigail Reynolds

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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” – Abraham Lincoln

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“Espresso is to Italy what champagne is to France.” – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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“I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.” – Howard Schultz

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“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.” – Lewis Black

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“No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for ‘Before Coffee.’” – Cherise Sinclair, Master of the Mountain

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“My couch is coffee-colored. I can thank Starbucks and clumsiness for that.” – Jarod Kintz

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“Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.” – Jonathan Swift

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“Coffee connects us in so many ways – to each other, to our senses, and to the earth that supports the coffee trees.” – Rohan Marley

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“Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.” – Terri Guillemets

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“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?” – Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

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“Coffee doesn’t need a menu, it needs a cup. That’s all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup — that’s it.” – Denis Leary

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“I don’t know how people live without coffee, I really don’t.” – Martha Quinn

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“I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.” – Howard Schultz

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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

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“To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.” – Hugh Jackman

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“Coffee. Creative lighter fluid.” – Floyd Maxwell

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“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.

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“Never trust anyone who doesn’t drink coffee.” – A.J. Lee

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“Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.” – Turkish Proverb

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“I’d never met coffee that wasn’t wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.” – Laurell K. Hamilton

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“I like my coffee like I like myself: strong, sweet, and too hot for you.” – Jac Vanek

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“Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.” – Catherynne M. Valente

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“If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all.” – Dacid Letterman

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“Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.” – Stephanie Piro

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“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.” – David Lynch

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“I think the key to the start of any good relationship is to remember how the other person likes their coffee.” – J. Lynn, Wait for You

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“I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.” – Flash Rosenberg

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Life’s too short for bad coffee.” – Gord Downie

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“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

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“I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.” – Steven Wright

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“I like instant gratification. It’s like instant coffee, only it won’t keep you up at night.” – Jarod Kintz

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“I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.” – Burt Lancaster

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“It’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee.” – Donna A. Favors

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“The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.” – Sir James Mackintosh

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“I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.” – Harry Mahtar

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“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” – Alfred Renyi

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“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.” – Adam Gopnik

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“I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.” – J.D. Salinger

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“Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.” – Bob Irwin

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“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today’s tasks.” – Holly Black, Ironside

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“I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.” – Clark Gable

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“Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” – Charles J. Sykes

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“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson

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“Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.” – Peter Diamonde

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“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.” – Terry Pratchett

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“What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.” – Henry Rollins