Quotations about Mornings

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


Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it. ~Richard Whately


The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ~Jean Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957


I'd like mornings better if they started later. ~Author Unknown


For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? ~Thornton Wilder


Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


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


The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either. ~John J. Welsh


Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters. ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis


Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux


The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. ~Monica Baldwin


The sun is but a morning star. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. ~Author Unknown


There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. ~Author Unknown


I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


You can only come to the morning through the shadows. ~J.R.R. Tolkien


I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. ~Joanne Sherman


Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings


The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I'm vertical. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com


Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up. ~Argosy


One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The day shall not be up so soon as I,
To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.
~William Shakespeare


The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. ~Thomas Jefferson


I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. ~Emily Dickinson


To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. ~Henry David Thoreau


Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ~Ambrose Bierce


No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. ~Robert Lynd


Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. ~William Feather


Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman


I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings. ~Terri Guillemets


I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. ~Rita Rudner