TV Quote of the Day (‘All in the Family,’ With a Difference of Opinion on Singing)

Cousin Maude [played by Bea Arthur] [after Maude sings loudly to wake everybody up]: “Are you waiting for a special invitation? I said breakfast is on the table.”

Archie Bunker [played by Carroll O’Connor]: “I heard ya. So did every moose up in Canada.”—All in the Family, Season 2, Episode 12, “Cousin Maude’s Visit,” original air date Dec. 11, 1971, teleplay by Phil Mishkin, Michael Ross, and Bernie West, directed by John Rich

Quote of the Day (Sue Grafton, With Kinsey Millhone on Her ‘Standard Breakfast’)

“I ordered my standard breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, jelly, and orange juice, with coffee throughout. It's the only meal I'm consistently fond of as it contains every element I crave: caffeine, salt, sugar, cholesterol, and fat. How can one resist? In California, with all the health nuts around, the very act of eating such a meal is regarded as a suicide attempt.”— Sue Grafton, B is for Burglar (1985)

Quote of the Day (Oscar Wilde, on the Horrors of Breakfast Talk)

“In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”—Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895)