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.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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?'

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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.

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.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

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.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

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.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

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

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

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

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

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

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

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

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.

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.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

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

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

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.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

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

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.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

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.

'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.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being 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.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

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.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.

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.

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.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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.

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

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.

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

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

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.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

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

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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.

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

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

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.