The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening.
—Maltese Proverb
Even the most beautiful morning cannot bring back the evening.
—Chinese Proverb
The morning, pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
Darkness is fled.—Now flowers unfold their beauties to the sun, and blushing, kiss the beam he sends to wake them.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-born British Playwright, Poet, Elected Rep
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
—Swedish Proverb
The chicken also knows when it’s morning, but still watches the mouth of the cock.
—African Proverb
I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions an angel might share.—The long, slender bars of cloud float, like fishes, in the sea of crimson light.—From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea.—I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches me, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Morn in the white-wake of the morning star, came furrowing all the Orient into gold.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
—C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
Last night I made a thousand plans, but this morning I went my old way.
—Chinese Proverb
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce … Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
—Japanese Proverb
Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow—No night but hath its mom.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist
Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
—Common Proverb
The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
—German Proverb
You must decide where you are going in the evening, if you intend to leave early in the morning.
—African Proverb
Sweet is the breath of morn; her rising sweet with charm of earliest birds.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
—German Proverb
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
—Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian
Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
But mighty nature bounds as from her birth: the sun is in the heavens, and life on earth; flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
God had infinite time to give us … He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
I’d like mornings better if they started later.
—Indian Proverb
The morn is up again, the dewy morn, with breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, and glowing into day.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.
—Turkish Proverb