ProverbMoralityEnglish origin

Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.

Meaning: Optimism fuels action during the day, but relying solely on wishes without results leaves you empty at day's end.

Origin: Recorded in A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, an undated collection published in London by Whittaker & Co. around 1880 and credited to Thomas Preston. Its earlier history hasn't been traced.

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