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“A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.”

Men Trying Wells Use Might Rich Food Fine Drink Cooking Coffee Bread Tea Culinary Cake Pie Tobacco Pork Chaste Flour Condiments

Book:Plain Facts for Old and Young

Source: Plain Facts for Old and Young

“And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.”

Break Food Cooking Coffee Eggs Culinary Frigid Dregs

Author:Ogden Nash

“There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'”

Giving Littles Light Food Give Me Tables Cooking Wine Coffee Cups Culinary Breakfast Bottles Cake Plates Grapes Coffee Cup Peaches Sponges Frugal Claret Nectarines

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.”

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Author:James Beard

“And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.”

Thinking Made Hands Lasts Food Fine Pure Gold Cooking China Coffee Secure Cups Burning Culinary Spoiled Arabia Berries Cinnamon Saffron Mocha Fine China

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.”

Food Approach Cooking Fruit Coffee Culinary Serving Rabbits Sauce Kiwi

Author:Jeff Smith

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

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”

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

Humor Funny Fun Food Coffee Instant Caffeine Ovens Back In Time Microwaves Funny Coffee Mornings And Coffee Funny Morning Coffee Instant Coffee

Author:Steven Wright

“Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.”

Matter Pieces Food Gold Coffee Cups Pie

Author:Irving Berlin

“I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.”

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Author:John William Van Druten

“Coffee isn't my cup of tea.”

Funny Food Humorous Cooking Coffee Cups Tea Culinary Hilarious Cups Of Tea Funny Friend

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.”

People Ifs Country Used Subjects Food Amount Drink Consequence Increase Notes Coffee Beer Quantity Disgusting

Author:Frederick The Great

“Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.”

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Author:Jilly Cooper

“We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.”

Eye Suffering Cities Plans Food Moon Radio Deeds Smell Coffee Titles Empires Eggs Idols Load Toil Asia Camels Fresh Food Culinary Love

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.”

Moments Food Coffee Fleeting Fragrance Fleeting Moments

Author:Claudia Roden

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

Life Success Food Coffee Insightful Futility Spoons Caffeine Espresso Funny Coffee Great Coffee Morning Coffee Mornings And Coffee Funny Morning Coffee Futility Of Life

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I have a coffee smile.”

Morning Food Smile Quote Of The Day Coffee Anthony T Hincks The Prophet Avocatorium Barista

Author:Anthony T. Hincks