the robin and the worm
Wilkie Collins book The Moonstone
Also in Recipes from an Edwardian Country House: A Stately English Home Shares Its Classic Tastes by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2013, ISBN 1-476-73033-4] ( p. 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=zZPzAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA22) <br class="br">Source: The Moonstone [Street, 1868] ( p. 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA49).
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
According to The Quote Investigator, this phrase first appeared on PIMA’s North American Papermaker: The Official Publication of the Paper Industry Management Association, in an article by Bill Moore and Jerry Rose. The year was 2000. Since then, the phrase has appeared many times. Peter Drucker died in 2005. The first time his name was associated to the citation was on 2011. Other occurrences and versions of the phrase can be found at https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/05/23/culture-eats/ <br class="br">Misattributed
“Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.”
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.”
A. P. Herbert book Uncommon Law
"Is Marriage Lawful?"
Uncommon Law (1935)
“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.
Irene Dunne (1898–1990) American actress
To Make You Hapier, by Roberta Orminston http://www.irenedunnesite.com/press/photoplay-april-1944/ Photoplay (April 1944).
“I am that one person
Who eats his breakfast,
Gazing at morning nothing.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #174 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/174 (Translation: Reginald Horace Blyth) <br class="br">Individual poems <br class="br">Original: (ja) 朝顔に<br>我は飯食ふ<br>男かな <br class="br">Original: (ja) asagao ni<br>ware wa meshi kû<br>otoko kana
“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)
