Thursday 13: Breakfast quotes
Today I am looking at quotes about breakfast. I am not a big breakfast lover, so you should not be
surprised that most of the quotes give it a somewhat negative spin.
Still, enjoy!
- A kiss and a drink of water make but a wersh breakfast. ~Scottish proverb
- O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal. ~Milan Kundera
- My wife and I tried two or three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. ~Winston Churchill
- There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilised man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. ~Helen Rowland
- In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ~Oscar Wilde
- Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper. ~English proverb
- Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish. ~Clement Freud
- People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. ~Max Beerbohm
- Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
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I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. ~W. C. Fields
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The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. ~Unknown
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All the older people who are thriving have stayed physically active — there are exceptions, and everyone knows someone who smoked two packs a day and had a few social beers with breakfast every morning who lived to be 85, but you have to assume that this won’t be you, … ~Anne Lamott
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced. ~Ambrose Bierce
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Love the Anne Lamont quote.
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I adhere to the one about never working before breakfast. I am not a morning person!
I never thought about quotes for breakfast.
Enjoy your Thursday!
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LOL, these are great! But I like to do a little work and wander around a bit before I eat. What is a “wersh breakfast”?
Alice, I had to look it up, too. Never heard the word before. Obviously it is a Scottish word (possibly somewhat obsolete) meaning “insipid” or “tasteless”.
HI Rikki.
I’ll be looking forward to meeting up with you for Needlework Tuesday. I do a bit of crochet, but only functional like finishing edges and such.
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I love breakfast, just not in the morning. I’m a night person to be sure.
I don’t have a T13 this week but I’m calling it my “13 Page Free Read” so I can invite my fellow T13ers to the Luck of the Irish blog hop and the chance to win ebooks, indulge in free reads and enter to win a Kindle 3! So come on by if you haven’t already
Smiles and Happy TT,
~Xakara
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Hi Rikki,
I am definitely a morning person, although I always get up long before my husband, as I like this to be my ‘me’ time.
I can’t leave the house without breakfast, although it is only ever cereal, orange juice and a mug of black coffee, usually eaten and drunk whilst reading my latest book. Duration time approx. half an hour.
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Thanks for sharing this round-up of breakfast quotes – I’m a big breakfast person (that is, I have to eat breakfast in the morning, but not a BIG breakfast
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