Morning After Quotes

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  When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Men, Morning Inspirational

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.384, Harvard University Press

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• If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Good Morning, Laughter

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• Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

  Ray Bradbury

  Good Morning, Good Day, Reality

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

  Michael J. Fox

  Good Morning, Sunday, Ideas

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• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

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• It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

  George Ade

  Happiness, Morning, Laughter

  Sultan of Sulu (1903) act 2, p. 63

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• Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker

  Mike Leigh

  Funny, Morning, Night

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• Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Morning, Love You

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.321, St. Martin's Press

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• Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Hurt, Morning, Mean

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

  Steven Wright

  Good Morning, Girlfriend, Mistake

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• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Morning, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Sea, Earthquakes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.262

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• Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Morning, Boredom, Thirst

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Morning, Fun, Betrayal

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.253, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Motivational, Good Morning, Vices

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seamus Perry (2002). “Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection”, p.71, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Morning, Bed, Waking

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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• The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Mother, Morning, Night

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• ...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Morning, Heart, Light

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.

  Cecily Strong

  Morning, Hobbies, Pills

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• Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

  Caroline Paul

  Morning, Ice Cream, Sandwiches

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• Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

  Francis Parkman

  Missing You, Morning, Men

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.57, VM eBooks

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• Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away from this place.

  Yxta Maya Murray

  Morning, Coffee, Book

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• First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

  Dolly Parton

  Spiritual, Morning, Makeup

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• The morning after I had my heart bypass, the doctor called and said, Soon you'll be able to have sex. I said, I've heard that for years.

  David Letterman

  Morning, Sex, Heart

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