"Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever."

-David Letterman (1994)

Honoré de Balzac
(1799-1850)
caricature by Benjamin Roubaud

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move...similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

-Honoré de Balzac (1799-1859)

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.

-The Women's Petition Against Coffee (1674)

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

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.

-The Women's Petition Against Coffee (1674)

Black coffee must be strong and very hot; if strong coffee does not agree with you, do not drink black coffee. And if you do not drink black coffee, do not drink any coffee at all.

-Andre Simon

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

-Turkish saying