“One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.”
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“One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors.”
Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Variant: Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Remarks by President Trump at MCCA Winter Conference https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/08/remarks-president-trump-mcca-winter-conference (8 February 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, February
“2541. Hope is a good Breakfast, but a bad Supper.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.”
Ian Fleming book From Russia, with Love
Source: From Russia With Love
Michael Korda (1933) British writer
As quoted in Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations) (2005) by M. P. Singh, p. 141
Al-Maqrizi (1364–1445) Egyptian Arab historian
in David W. Tschanz, Islamic Roots of Modern Hospitals https://www.aramcoworld.com/en-US/Articles/March-2017/The-Islamic-Roots-of-the-Modern-Hospital
“Thomas: Sometimes it's a good day to die, and sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast.”
Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker
Smoke Signals (1998)