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Our favourite coffee quotes

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Sara Walker

Here at the Wholesale Coffee Company, we live, work and …er…drink coffee. A lot. In fact, it pretty much fuels our working day. It’s not just us who find it inspirational, though – here are some quotes that underline just how important coffee is to almost everyone.

“If it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”
(David Letterman, American former television host, writer, producer, comedian and actor)

“I judge a restaurant by the bread and the coffee.”
(Burt Lancaster, 1913 to 1994, American film actor)

“I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.”
(Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769 to 1821)

“Coffee makes us severe and grave and philosophical.”
(Jonathan Swift, 1667 to 1745, Anglo-Irish satirical author whose works included Gulliver’s Travels)

“This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.”

(Honoré de Balzac, 1799 to 1850, French author and playwright, who supposedly drank 50 cups a day and wrote about it in a work entitled ‘The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee‘.)

“Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
(Alexander Pope, 1688 to 1744, English poet.)

“I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.”

(Ronald Reagan, 1911 to 2004, American commentator and actor, best known as the 40th President of the United States between 1981 and 1989)

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Coffee Inspiration in the Cup

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Sara Walker

We went in search of more coffeisms, inspirational and funny coffee quotes and anything else coffe-esque. This is what we found:

I like big cups and I cannot lie. (Really depends on what coffee you put in them! Good quality coffee beans please.)

Coffee is not just a beverage. It’s a cup of liquid sanity. (We couldn’t agree more. If we wrote something weird, clearly we didn’t have enough coffee that day. Had a good day? Take credit. Had a bad day? Blame it on the coffee…or lack thereof.)

If you like coffee as much as we do, you probably had a giggle at these! And if you like coffee as much as we do you’d probably also want to buy coffee from us, right?! After all we sell some of the best coffee beans on the planet! Fresh roasted coffee beans, green coffee beans, ground coffee beans…coffee beans all round. As someone really clever said: Good coffee smells like freshly ground heaven. Amen.

There’s Nothing Like Coffee…

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Sara Walker

There really is nothing quite as inspirational as the smell of fresh roasted coffee beans in the morning. If you ever worked in a coffee shop that roasted their beans fresh, you know what we mean. As we sell green coffee beans we sometimes roast ourselves, or take a deep breath when we open the bags of fresh roasted coffee beans we also sell. Then we have to use them all very quickly so they don’t go stale. It’s the perfect excuse to use the beans all that much faster…

As coffee really does inspire us beyond that first refreshing cuppa in the morning (we do work with it after all) we thought we’d share some funny “coffeology” we found lately. Or maybe not funny, more like…profound. If you believe in the power of coffee that is.

Quotes About Coffee

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Sara Walker

Looking for the perfect coffee quote to put in a nice card for a coffee lover, or one to adorn your kitchen, or coffee shop? So that when you have your morning cup of Joe, or your guests do they have something to ponder at the same time? We found a selection for you. Whether you want to put it in a card, frame it, paint it on the wall, or simply enjoy reading it here and now. (We are also contemplating that right now half of the world’s quotes would probably not exist if it wasn’t for coffee in the first place. Just imagine what your imagination would look like without coffee to drive it!)

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” – Albert Camus

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?” – Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“If this is coffee, then please-bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” –Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

“Only one thing is certain about coffee…. Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation.” – Mark Pendergrast

“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

“I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.” – Flash Rosenberg

“Chocolate, men, coffee – some things are better rich.” – Author Unknown

“Deja Brew: The feeling that you’ve had this coffee before.” – Author Unknown

“I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.” – Ronald Reagan

“Man does not live by coffee alone. Have a danish.” – Author Unknown

“Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.” – Stephanie Piro

“No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for “Before Coffee.” – Cherise Sincalaire, Master of the Mountain

“Police work wouldn’t be possible without coffee,” Wallander said. “No work would be possible without coffee.” They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.” – Henning Mankell, One Step Behind

“Come on, don’t you ever stop and smell the coffee?” – Justina Chen, North of Beautiful

“In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.” – Jeff Bezos

“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

“It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles.” – Dave Barry

“Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.” – Alex Levine

“The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.” – Sir James Mackintosh

“Coffee first. Schemes later.” – Leanna Renee

Coffee sayings and phrases

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Sara Walker

It’s a measure of how important coffee has become to our culture that it’s found its way into the language, via so many sayings, phrases and proverbs such as: “Wake up and smell the coffee” – a commonly-used phrase meaning to ‘pay attention to a situation and try to do something about it’. It seems to be American in origin, although there’s no record of its first use. Example of usage: “If first-time buyers think it’s easy to get on the property ladder, they need to wake up and smell the coffee.””Coffee-housing” – Used as a verb, the Cassell Dictionary of Slang defines this as a mid-19th century phrase meaning to gossip or chatter. Originally in use among the fox-hunting fraternity, it refers to the perceived behaviour of those frequenting 18th century coffee houses. Example of usage: “Is Jane coming, or is she still coffee-housing?”

“Coffee and cocoa” – a 20th century rhyming slang phrase, meaning “say so”. Abbreviated and popularised on BBC radio in the 1950s as “I should cocoa”.

Most cultures seem to have a proverb involving coffee, such as “coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as love” – an old Turkish saying, which does perfectly describe the strong, sugary cups of espresso-type coffee popular in Turkey, which is more usually brewed in a saucepan rather than a coffee machine to increase its strength. There are several other Turkish coffee proverbs, in line with that culture’s long relationship with the coffee bean – another is, “Coffee and tobacco are complete repose”. In a similar vein is the Ethiopian proverb, “Coffee and love taste better when hot.” The Dutch are less hot-blooded, with their proverb being, “Coffee has two virtues – it is wet and warm”.

Whether funny or true, these phrases track our relationship with coffee going back centuries, and emphasise how important it is both to the individual and to society as a whole.