The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully. Alan Lightman
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality. John Kennedy Toole
... Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings. Kay Redfield Jamison
The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. Dutch Proverb