Morrow Quotes - Page 7

• half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Procrastination, Frustrated, Half

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.363

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• It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
  [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

  Lucretius

  Fortune, Doubtful

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• Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
  And still a new to-morrow does come on.
  We by to-morrow draw out all our store,
  Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

  Abraham Cowley

  Yield, Yesterday, Doe

  Abraham Cowley (1809). “The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse”, p.225

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• To-day is ours; what do we fear?
  To-day is ours; we have it here.
  Let's treat it kindly, that it may
  Wish, at least, with us to stay.
  Let's banish business, banish sorrow;
  To the gods belong to-morrow.

  Abraham Cowley

  Sorrow, Wish, May

  Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”

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• Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

  Fanny Fern

  Dog, Children, Believe

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Yesterday, Hands, Humanity

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Self, Hands, Anxiety

  William Batchelder Greene (1873). “A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women”, p.6

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• Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.

  Kenneth Rand

  Pain, Sunlight

  Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”

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• Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Summer, Morning

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.

  Anacreon

  Today

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• We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Littles, Might

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.949, Delphi Classics

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• You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Order, Yesterday, Remembrance

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. I”, p.90

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• Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

  Horace

  May, Too Much, Fly Away

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• Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

  Horace

  Events, May, Looking Forward

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• To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Finals, May, Tomorrow

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• The weary sun hath made a golden set
  And by the bright tract of his fiery car
  Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Twilight, Giving, Car

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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• Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Blessing, Yesterday, Evil

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.365

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• Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.

  William Congreve

  Wise, Cheer, Grateful

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• An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eggs, Hens

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.276, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Be Good

  Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.66, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know.

  Statius

  Men, Years, Might

  Publius Papinius Statius, David Roy Shackleton Bailey (2003). “L207n Statius Ii”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity it is that when morning comes and to-morrow is to-day, we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently; careless or impatient, and not a bit inclined to do the fine things we planned overnight.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Morning, Night, Feelings

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• Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

  Horace

  Grief, Joy, Fortune

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Future, People, Doubtful

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

  Cesare Pavese

  Son, Generations, Artistic

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.295, Transaction Publishers

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