Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Apophthegms.

There were three ravens sat on a tree, They were as black as they might be. The one of them said to his make, 'Where shall we our breakfast take?'

-Ballads
'The Three Ravens'.

'Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch, and tea Are all the human frame requires†' With that the wretched child expires.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Henry King'.

   Alice laughed.'There'sno usetrying,'shesaid: 'one can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,'said the Queen.'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an- hour a day.Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 5,'Wool and Water'.

Well, we Kennedys, we eat Rockefellers for breakfast.

-Kennedy, Robert F(rancis)
Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz The Rockefellers (1976).

Uberhaupt ist es fu«  r den Forscher ein guter Morgensport, t a« glich vor dem Fru«  hstu«  ck eine Lieblingshypothese einzustampfenödas erh a« lt jung. It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

-Lorenz, Konrad
  Das sogenannte Bo«  se ('The So-Called Evil', translated by Marjorie Latzke as On  Aggression,1966), ch.2.

I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids and I thought,'He's just likeTeflon. Nothing sticks to him.'

-Schroeder, Patricia Scott
  Of President Ronald Reagan. In the Boston Globe, 24 Oct.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is perfectly good manners to read the paper.

-Vanderbilt, Amy
  AmyVanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette.

I despair of the Republic!† What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

-Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones
  On the US. Letter to Sara Norton,19 Aug.