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Your Quotes for 26 December 2005 - Coffee

Twas on this day in 1865 that James H. Mason of Franklin, Massachusetts invented the coffee percolator. History is silent on the reason, perhaps he couldn't face cleaning house after the Christmas feast without a strong cup of coffee to get going. For a century it was the most common way of making a few cups, although coffee was critical to millions of us before the invention and after its replacement.

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.
     - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
     - T. S. Eliot, 1888 - 1965

When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
     - Helen Hayes, 1900 - 1993

After a few months' acquaintance with European "coffee," one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

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.
     - John Boynton Priestley, 1894 - 1984

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