good morning quotes to start the day

Seven days of no swimming makes one weak. ~Author Unknown



The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work. ~George Graham, 1997



To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler. ~Terri Guillemets



Coffee in England is just toasted milk. ~Author Unknown



No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. ~Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities



Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



The safest risk is the one you didn't take. ~Author Unknown



I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people (expensive girlfriends, for instance) that it's often hard to tell the people and the cats apart. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners



Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White



It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ~Epicurus



Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia



You see much more of your children once they leave home. ~Lucille Ball



Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice. ~Author unknown, from New Yorker, "Talk of the Town"



It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. ~William Shakespeare



We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. ~Lee Iacocca