Kris Kristofferson (1936) American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and film actor
Sunday Morning Comin' Down
Song lyrics, Kristofferson (1970)
“I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived — my breakfast supplied only two ideas — that the rolls were good and the butter bad.”
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“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
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No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Variant: Money is a great servant but a bad master.
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 21)
“2541. Hope is a good Breakfast, but a bad Supper.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Speech at the Democratic National Convention (18 August 1956)
“I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.”
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“A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.”
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
Attributed in Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement? (1993) by Giles Gordon, and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth M. Knowles, p. 14
