If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. – Henny Youngman
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it. – Richard Whately
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
I’d like mornings better if they started later. – Author Unknown
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? – Thornton Wilder
Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. – Elbert Hubbard
The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning — and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either. – John J. Welsh
Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com
If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters. – Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis
The sun is but a morning star. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. – Author Unknown
I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com
You can only come to the morning through the shadows. – J.R.R. Tolkien
…Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
There would be a lot more optimists if it weren’t for the rise-and-shine requirement. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. – Joanne Sherman
Just before dawn I have the world all to myself. – Terri Guillemets
What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness. – Sarah Smiley
And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul. – Sarah Smiley
