“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, 1888
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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
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“I'm always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
Jean Kerr · Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”
Robert Benchley · Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
“I am not a morning person. Then again, I'm not really an afternoon or evening person either.”
Garfield · Jim Davis, Garfield comic strip
“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”
Robert Orben · widely attributed
“I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.”
Horatio Nelson · attributed
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
John Steinbeck · On Writing, attributed
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Blaise Pascal · Lettres provinciales, 1657
“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.”
Charles Caleb Colton · Lacon, 1820
“I don't like mornings. They start too early.”
Groucho Marx · widely attributed
“I have a dream that one day I will wake up and feel rested.”
Groucho Marx · widely attributed
