1. I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.

- Clark Gable

2. 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

3. Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

- Peter Diamonde

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

5. I like my coffee like I like myself: strong, sweet, and too hot for you.

- Jac Vanek

6. I like instant gratification. It’s like instant coffee, only it won’t keep you up at night.

- Jarod Kintz

7. I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

8. It’s when you look over the top of your coffee cup, that you can smile at life.

- Anthony T. Hincks

9. Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.

- Terri Guillemets

10. Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of goat.

- Johann Sebastian Bach

11. To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

- Hugh Jackman

12. Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today’s tasks.

- Holly Black, Ironside

13. 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

14. Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.

- Thomas Jefferson

15. Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

- Terry Pratchett

16. Coffee. Creative lighter fluid.

- Floyd Maxwell

17. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

- Alfred Renyi

18. I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

- T.S. Eliot

19. Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.

- Stephanie Piro

20. The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.

- Sir James Mackintosh

21. I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

- Burt Lancaster

22. I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.

- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

23. My couch is coffee-colored. I can thank Starbucks and clumsiness for that.

- Jarod Kintz

24. 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

25. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

- Abraham Lincoln

26. It’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee.

- Donna A. Favors

27. Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.

- Fran Drescher

28. Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.

- Jonathan Swift

29. Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

- Claudia Roden

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

- Ronald Reagan

31. 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

32. 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

33. I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

- Howard Schultz

34. As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

- Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

35. Decaf coffee only works if you throw it at people.

- Unknown

36. I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

- Lewis Black

37. Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.

- Catherynne M. Valente

38. Never trust anyone who doesn’t drink coffee.

- A.J. Lee

39. 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.

40. If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all.

- Dacid Letterman

41. Coffee?should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

- Turkish Proverb

42. You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

- Adam Gopnik

43. I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

- Abigail Reynolds

44. Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.

- David Lynch

45. I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.

- Flash Rosenberg

46. What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?

- Anthony Trollope, The Warden

47. Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

- Earl Wilson

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

- Rohan Marley

49. Adventure in life is good… consistency in coffee even better.

- Justina Headley

50. No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for ‘Before Coffee.’

- Cherise Sinclair, Master of the Mountain

51. 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

52. I’d never met coffee that wasn’t wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

53. A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.

- Marcia Carrington

54. Espresso is to Italy what champagne is to France.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

55. What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.

- Henry Rollins

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

- Alphonse Allais

57. I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

- Steven Wright

58. 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

59. Life’s too short for bad coffee.

- Gord Downie

60. Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.

- Bob Irwin

61. Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

- Edward Abbey

62. I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

- Howard Schultz

63. When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.

- Honore de Balzac

64. Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

- Charles J. Sykes

65. I don’t know how people live without coffee, I really don’t.

- Martha Quinn

66. I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.

- Harry Mahtar