"A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup."
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"All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee."
"we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop."
"Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown."
"My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will."
"What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs."
"A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind."
"I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace."
"The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best."
"I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off."
"Sixty sluts, all of them dying from asphyxia after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippy cup."
"It ain't my cup of meat."
"Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides."
"I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup."
"I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses."
"The main thing in a cup tie is to get through."
"Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil."
"Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound."
"The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold."
"My little cup brims with tiddles."