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.”
Letter (1799-06-19) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
“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.
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 21)
“2541. Hope is a good Breakfast, but a bad Supper.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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.”
“A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.”
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