“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.”
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From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.”
Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Variant: Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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)
2010s, 2017, February
“2541. Hope is a good Breakfast, but a bad Supper.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
As quoted in Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations) (2005) by M. P. Singh, p. 141
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.”
Smoke Signals (1998)