“If I were your wife,” said Lady Nancy Astor to Winston Churchill,” I would put poison in your coffee.” To which Churchill replied, “If I was your husband I would drink it.”
“Among the numerous luxuries of the table, coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable,” said Benjamin Franklin adding, “It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.”
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“I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debates on issues,” said Phil Crane adding, “so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.”
“The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment,” said Thomas Jefferson, “will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.”
“The powers of a man's mind,” said Sir James Mackintosh, “are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drinks.”
“I never drink coffee at lunch,” said Ronald Reagan, “I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.”
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“It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted, and old at the age of twenty,” said Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin adding, “I once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.”
“Coffee is turning out to be quite a cosmic issue,” said Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Russell Greenberg in 1992 adding, “and the way it's grown, marketed, and consumed has implications for the environmental health of the world.”
“We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married,” said Laura Bush adding, “And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, reading our briefing papers.”
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