Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or today.
Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.
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.
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.
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.
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say;
To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
Cease to ask what the morrow
will bring forth,
and set down as gain
each day that fortune grants.
Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
[Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,
Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.
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.
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.” “You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked. “What is that?” she asked.
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?
Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.
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.
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.
Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.
To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.
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.
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future
I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
The gates of monarchs
Are arched so high that giants may jet through
And keep their impious turbans on without
Good morrow to the sun.
The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork to-morrow.
The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
[Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.
Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
One of my best friends while shooting 'Roots' was Vic Morrow, the guy that whips Kunta.
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.
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.
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.
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