tomorrow quotes

Eachschool can, onceagain, become what it was always meant to beöa building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.

-Akers,John Fellows
  In the Wall Street  Journal, 20 Mar.

Thanks for tomorrow, thanks for last week, thanks for next Fridayöin fact thanks for everything except last night.

-Atkinson, Brooks
Reviewing Le Roy Bailey's Thanks for Tomorrow. Quoted in the NewYork Times,14  Jan1984.

'Oh, mother, mother, mak my bed, And mak it saft and narrow; My love has died for me to-day, I'll die for him tomorrow.'

-Ballads
'Barbara  Allen'.

Faith, Sir, we are here to-day, and gone to-morrow.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  The Lucky Chance, act 4.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 27:1.

And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 22:13.

What advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die. See Parker 638:61.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:32.

To-morrow let us do or die!

-Campbell,Thomas
  'Gertrude of  Wyoming', pt.3, stanza 37.

Now thou hast loved me one whole day, Tomorrow when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say?

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'Woman's Constancy', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

History is the endless repetition of the wrong way of living, and it'll start again tomorrow, if it's moved from here today. 296

-Durrell, Lawrence George
  In The Listener, 20  Apr.

   Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedesbeforeus.It eludedusthen, but that's no matteröto-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further† And one fine morning† So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  The Great Gatsby, ch.9.

Il fera demain ce qu'il fait aujourd'hui et ce qu'il fit hier; et il meurt ainsi apre'  s avoir ve¤  cu. What he does tomorrow will be what he did today and yesterday; and he shall die after having lived this way.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'De la ville', no.12.

Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men do not say 'I shall live on.' Tomorrow's life's too late; live today.

-Martial full name MarcusValerius Martialis
Epigrams, bk.1, no.15.

   Tomorrow, I'll think of some other way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

-Mitchell, Margaret
  Scarlett O'Hara's final words. Gone  with  the Wind, ch.63.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do). See Bible121:16.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Not So Deep as AWell,'The Flaw in Paganism'.

   Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.

-Punch

Half of them don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and the other half don't know they don't know.

-Quinn,Jane Bryant
  Of stock market players. On CNN TV, 4 Apr.

Today we have naming of parts.Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But today, Today we have naming of parts.Japonica Glistens like coral in all of the neighbouring gardens And today we have naming of parts.

-Reed, Henry
  Lessons of theWar, pt.1,'Naming of Parts'.

Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.

-Richler, Mordecai
Of Canada. St Urbain's Horseman, ch.1.

Communications today puts a special emphasis on what happens next, for an able, sophisticated and competitive press knows that what happens today is no longer newsöit is what isgoing to happen tomorrow that is the object of interest and concern.

-Rusk, (David) Dean
  At Time's 40th anniversary dinner,17 May.

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