Morrow Quotes - Page 4

• My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Heart, June

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit.

  Henry Miller

  Jesus, Men, Russia

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1906). “Faust, a Dramatic Mystery”

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• She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

  Edith Wharton

  Boredom, Afternoon, Might

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Passion, Men

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.244, London

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• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Procrastination, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.45, Fordham Univ Press

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• The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Rivers, Numbers

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• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Morning, Years

  Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9

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• We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

  H. G. Wells

  Dear

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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• Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Laughter, Eye

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt)”

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• What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

  Carlo Collodi

  School, What Matters, Lessons

  Carlo Collodi (2015). “Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

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• As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Night, Blue, Years

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830). “The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Consisting of Miscellaneous Selections from His Poetical Works. The Entire Poems of Adonais and Alastor, and a Revised Edition of Queen Mab, Free from All the Objectionable Passages. With a Biographical Preface”, p.214

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• The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Anxiety, Use, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, SCM Press

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• To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Years, Next Day, Toil

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.38, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.

  J. D. Salinger

  Guy, Toilet Seat, Toilets

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

  George MacDonald

  Sadness, Rose, Wipe

  George Macdonald (2016). “Phantastes”, p.87, George Macdonald

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• And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

  Jaroslav Hašek

  Europe, Age, Today

  Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War”

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• To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Doe, Littles

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Sky, Clouds, Soul

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.308, Random House

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• He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Rose, Forlorn

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 7

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• When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

  George R. R. Martin

  Speak, Certain

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.245, Bantam

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• When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Hunting, Goes On

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.326, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.

  George R. R. Martin

  Moving, Moon, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1212, Bantam

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• 1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you have it. 4.Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5.Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6.We never repent of having eaten too little. 7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9.Take things always by their smooth handle. 10.When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Pride, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.402

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• "I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Perfect, Satisfaction

  "Wilde Complete Plays".

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