Coffeeshop Scene - Explains the "Coffeeshop" culture and history, includes links to various related topics.
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Coffeeshops If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Coffeeshops
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Coffeeshops Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Coffeeshops
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Coffeeshops The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Coffeeshops
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Coffeeshops We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Coffeeshops
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Coffeeshops In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Coffeeshops
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Coffeeshops Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Coffeeshops
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Coffeeshops "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Coffeeshops
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Coffeeshops Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Coffeeshops
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Coffeeshops The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Coffeeshops
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Coffeeshops God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Coffeeshops
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Coffeeshops There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Coffeeshops
