“Without my morning coffee I’m just like a dried up piece of roast goat.” ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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

“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., “Over the Teacups,” 1891

“Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee…” ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (1732, an aria from his ‘Kaffee-Kantate’)

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

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