Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. - Turkish proverb.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk. - Christopher Fry, British playwright "New York Post" (29 Nov. 1962).

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. "Over the Teacups" (1891).

After a few months' acquaintance with European "coffee," one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed. - Mark Twain "A Tramp Abroad" (1880).

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. - Coleman Dowell "Mrs. October Was Here, Tasmania, Now" (1973).

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 "Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. -William Burroughs "The Adding Machine, Remembering Jack Kerouac" (1985).

Look here Steward, if this is coffee, I want tea; but if this is tea, then I wish for coffee. - Punch "vol. cxxiii, p.44"

For fifteen days I struggled to prove that no functions analogous to those I have since called Fuchsian functions could exist; I was then very ignorant. Every day I sat down at my work table where I spent an hour or two; I tried a great number of combinations and arrived at no result. One evening, contrary to my custom, I took black coffee; I could not go to sleep; ideas swarmed up in clouds; I sensed them clashing until, to put it so, a pair would hook together to form a stable combination. By morning I had established the existence of a class of Fuchsian functions, those derived from the hypergeometric series. I had only to write up the results which took me a few hours. - Henri Poincare, "Science et Methode":

If you'll excuse me a minute, I'm going to have a cup of coffee. - broadcast from Apollo 11's LEM, "Eagle", to Johnson Space Center, Houston July 20, 1969.

Plastic gun. Ingenious. More coffee, please. - The Phantom

 

He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me. - Jacques Prevert, "Dejeuner du Matin"

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T.S. Eliot 'Macavity: The Mystery Cat"

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