It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John Steinbeck

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Rodney Dangerfield

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Johnny Depp

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will Rogers

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
Henry Miller

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.
Princess Diana

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan