“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
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley · Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
“I am not a morning person. Then again, I'm not really an afternoon or evening person either.” — Garfield · Jim Davis, Garfield comic strip
“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.” — Robert Orben · widely attributed
“I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.” — Horatio Nelson · attributed
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” — John Steinbeck · On Writing, attributed
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” — Blaise Pascal · Lettres provinciales, 1657