Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

morning

The sun is new each day. 10 wisdom & wit from Heraclitus

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. 11 wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from Marcus Aurelius

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning. 2 wisdom & wit from Wilbur Wright

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

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 views from Joe Slovo

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

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 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Miles Davis

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

'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 quotes from George Edward Woodberry

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

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

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

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 sayings from Dean Martin

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 wisdom & wit from Alexis Carrel

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

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

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 quotes from E. B. White

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

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

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic. 4 other wisdom & wit from Natalie Wood

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

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

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

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

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. 22 more views from William Feather

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

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 thoughts from Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

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 other sayings from Charles Dudley Warner

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

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

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

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. 100 more views from Mahatma Gandhi

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 more sayings from Aleister Crowley

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 more wisdom & wit from Wallace Stevens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 wisdom & wit from Charles Olson

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

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 quotes from Frank Sinatra

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. 26 wisdom & wit from Emily Dickinson

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

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 thoughts from Cary Grant

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

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

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 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. 26 quotes 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 quotes from Robert Burton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 sayings from John Steinbeck

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

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

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

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 more wisdom & wit from Robert Frost

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. 16 quotes 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 more quotes from Pearl Bailey

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