Here’s our collection of clever coffee quotes and sayings which cover everything from the interesting to the quirky. If you have a clever coffee quote, then send it to us and we’ll consider adding it. Thanks!
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Albert Einstein
Coffee has two virtues, it’s wet and it’s warm.
Dutch Proverb
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
Carly Simon
I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster
Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.
David Letterman
Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, ‘Jesus! This cup is expensive!’
Conan O’Brien
Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.
Author Unknown
There are three intolerable things in life—cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
Orson Welles
Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.
Author Unknown
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
Ronald Reagan
Given enough coffee, I could rule the world.
Author Unknown
I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.
Harry Mahtar
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
Henry Ward Beecher
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
Author Unknown
Without my morning coffee I’m just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and as sweet as love.
Turkish Proverb
Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.
Stephanie Piro
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
Ernest Hemingway
A morning without coffee is like sleep.
Author Unknown
Strong coffee, and plenty, awakens me. It gives me warmth, an unusual force, a pain that is not without pleasure. I would rather suffer than be senseless.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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