“If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.”

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American writer 1938

Sukanto Tanoto (1949) Indonesian businessman

Interview, New York Times, Dec 1, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/business/international/indonesia-economy-interest-rates.html?_r=0 <br class="br">2015

“598. An empty Sack cannot stand upright.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : An empty bag will not stand upright.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“There are two things in life that keep me motivated, a cup of coffee and a second cup of coffee.”

Craig Benzine (1980) Filmmaker, comedian, presenter

Source: Robert Galinsky (2013) Coffee Crazy, p. 88

“I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'... I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.”

Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist

Source: 1980's, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art world of Our Time, 1980, p. 89

“What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

Source: Black Coffee Blues

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

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all: —
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.