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

morning

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

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 live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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?'

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

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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.

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.

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

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

The sun is new each day.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

'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.