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Your Quotes for 31 May 2005 - Breakfast

On this day in 1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg applied for a patent for a flaked cereal. Based on current accounts of Kellogg, he was quite a flake himself. It's unclear why he thought the patent would do him any good, as Henry Perky of Denver had 43 patents on shredded wheat and Dr Kellogg was making and selling it anyway. Breakfast is a meal I rarely eat except when traveling, but I have a few quotes on the subject.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
     - Adelle Davis

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
     - Marlene Dietrich, 1901 - 1992

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
     - Nick Seitz

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
     - Larry McMurtry

Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
     - Helen Rowland, 1875 - 1950

When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.
     - Mervyn A. King

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