Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

morning

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. 74 other sayings from Winston Churchill

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. 14 more sayings from Wendell Phillips

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?' 57 quotes from Will Rogers

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. 2 other wisdom & wit from Konrad Lorenz

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. 32 wisdom & wit from William Blake

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough. 2 quotes from Cab Calloway

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. 26 views from Emily Dickinson

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. 3 sayings from Charles Olson

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. 10 thoughts from Frank Sinatra

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. 21 quotes from Abu Bakr

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. 96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure. 2 more quotes from George Foreman

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. 14 sayings from William Arthur Ward

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. 3 sayings from Cary Grant

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening. 2 more quotes from DeForest Kelley

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. 7 other views from Tallulah Bankhead

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper. 4 thoughts from Charles Peguy

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief. 5 sayings from Franz Schubert

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land. 2 more sayings from Du Fu

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood. 5 thoughts from Christopher Columbus

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown. 2 sayings from William John Wills

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. 24 wisdom & wit from Carl Sandburg

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. 12 quotes from John Barrymore

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. 10 more sayings from Peter De Vries

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. 4 quotes from Francois Truffaut

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. 9 more wisdom & wit from John Steinbeck

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. 24 quotes from James Russell Lowell

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. 4 quotes from George Ade

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. 5 views from Richard Whately

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. 33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. 26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. 4 more views from Robert Burton

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. 6 quotes from Sinclair Lewis

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. 3 sayings from Sholom Aleichem

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. 50 other wisdom & wit from Robert Frost

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. 2 thoughts from George M. Humphrey

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. 16 thoughts from Henny Youngman

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. 7 quotes from Pearl Bailey

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning. 2 more quotes from Wilbur Wright

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. 11 other quotes from Nicolas Chamfort

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. 41 other thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. 2 other quotes from George Edward Woodberry

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. 11 sayings from Salvador Dali

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. 35 wisdom & wit from Rabindranath Tagore

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning. 2 quotes from David O. Selznick

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop. 2 more sayings from Joe Slovo

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. 9 quotes from John Cheever

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. 3 views from Miles Davis

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. 5 views from Alexis Carrel

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. 59 other thoughts from Elbert Hubbard

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day. 3 quotes from Dean Martin

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning. 2 quotes from Jack Dempsey

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day. 3 wisdom & wit from Dean Martin

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. 2 quotes from Mary Antin

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. 10 views from Elizabeth Bowen

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. 19 wisdom & wit from E. B. White

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. 117 views from Henry David Thoreau

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic. 4 more quotes from Natalie Wood

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' 24 more quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again. 4 more quotes from Ben Hogan

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. 16 thoughts from Samuel Goldwyn

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. 4 views from Izaak Walton

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. 22 other quotes from William Feather

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different. 5 thoughts from Charles Dudley Warner

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. 63 wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. 15 other sayings from Cyril Connolly

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. 14 other wisdom & wit from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant. 2 quotes from Michael Collins

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. 24 more quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. 16 quotes from Wallace Stevens

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. 100 more wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. 29 thoughts from Groucho Marx

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind. 6 thoughts from Helen Hunt Jackson

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. 8 other views from Helen Hayes

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. 4 quotes from Aleister Crowley