Tomorrow
day after today
Tomorrow is the day after the present day, sometimes used to refer to the near future in general.
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edit- Tomorrow would be better. Tomorrow was always better, for someone. The difficult task lay in ensuring that the someone was one of yours.
- Algis Budrys, Some Will Not Die (1961), Chapter 3
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He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
~ John Dryden
- Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.- John Dryden, Imitation of Horace (1685), Book III, Ode 29, lines 65–68.
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- To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.
- Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia (1923), existing in manuscript as "My Two Years in Russia" this work was published as My Disillusionment with Russia (1923), and My Further Disillusionment with Russia (1924) and finally as a complete one-volume edition (1925)
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edit- Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo in Les Misérables, Vol. II : Cosette, Book I : Waterloo, Chapter XVII : Is Waterloo to be considered Good?
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edit- We stood there and talked while Elizabeth sipped her milk daintily and she told me all about Tomorrow. The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen . . . wonderful things. She may even have a day to do exactly as she likes in, with nobody watching her . . . though I think Elizabeth feels that is too good to happen even in Tomorrow. Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road . . . that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake, that leads, so Elizabeth thinks, to the end of the world. Perhaps the Island of Happiness is there. Elizabeth feels sure there is an Island of Happiness somewhere where all the ships that never come back are anchored, and she will find it when Tomorrow comes.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
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edit- No soul is aware of what it will achieve tomorrow and no soul knows in which land it will die.
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edit- To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act V, scene 5, line 19
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- Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X, Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary: Speeches, Interviews, and a Letter (1970).
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edit- In human hearts what bolder thoughts can rise,
Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn!
Where is to-morrow?- Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night I, line 374
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
edit- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 806-808.
- Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow
Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.- Tome Burguillos, To-morrow, and To-morrow as translated by John Bowring
- How oft my guardian angel gently cried,
"Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shall see
How he persists to knock and wait for thee!"
And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow,
"To-morrow we will open," I replied,
And when the morrow came I answered still,
"To-morrow."- Lope de Vega, To-morrow. Longfellow's translation, line 9
- Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; attributed also to DeWitt, Grand Pensionary of Holland
- Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.
- To-morrow will give some food for thought.
- Cicero, Epistolæ Ad Atticum, XV. 8
- 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.- Mary Clemmer, To-morrow
- In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining,
May my lot no less fortunate be
Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining,
And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea;
With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn,
While I carol away idle sorrow,
And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn,
Look forward with hope for to-morrow.- John Collins, To-morrow, in the ]]Golden Treasury of Best Songs and Lyrical Poems]]
- 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, Letter to Cobham, line 61
- To-morrow, didst thou say?
Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!
Go to—I will not hear of it. To-morrow!
'Tis a sharper—who stakes his penury
Against thy plenty—takes thy ready cash,
And pays thee naught but wishes, hopes, and promises,
The currency of idiots—injurious bankrupt,
That gulls the easy creditor!- Nathaniel Cotton, To-morrow
- Trust on and think To-morrow will repay;
To-morrow's falser than the former day;
Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest
With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.- John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Act IV, scene 1
- One today is worth two tomorrows.
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
- Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
- Oh! to be wafted away
From this black Aceldama of sorrow,
Where the dust of an earthy to-day,
Makes the earth of a dusty to-morrow.- W. S. Gilbert, Heart-Foam
- Leuconoë, close the book of fate,
For troubles are in store,
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Live today, tomorrow is not.- Horace, Carmina, I, XI
- There is a budding morrow in midnight.
- John Keats, Sonnet, Standing alone in giant Ignorance
- Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks,
And through the opening door that time unlocks
Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To-Morrow
- To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
And tremble to be happy with the rest."
And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
God hath already said what shall betide."- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To-Morrow
- There's a fount about to stream,
There's a light about to beam,
There's a warmth about to glow,
There's a flower about to blow;
There's a midnight blackness changing
Into gray;
Men of thought and men of action,
Clear the way.- Charles Mackay, Clear the Way. In Voices from the Crowd
- To-morrow never yet
On any human being rose or set.- William Marsden, What is Time?
- To-morrow you will live, you always cry;
In what fair country does this morrow lie,
That 'tis so mighty long ere it arrive?
Beyond the Indies does this morrow live?
'Tis so far-fetched, this morrow, that I fear
'Twill be both very old and very dear.
"To-morrow I will live," the fool does say:
To-day itself's too late;—the wise lived yesterday.- Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book V, Epigram LVIII
- To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.
- Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), The Light of the Harem, Song
- To-morrow is, ah, whose?
- Dinah Craik, Between Two Worlds
- This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd:
To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed:
To-morrow not yet come, not far away,
What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.- Robert Owen, To-Day and To-Morrow, Book III, line 50
- Cum altera lux venit
Jam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras
Egerit hos annos, et semper paulum erit ultra.- When another day has arrived, we will find that we have consumed our yesterday's to-morrow; another morrow will urge on our years, and still be a little beyond us.
- Persius, Satires, V. 67
- To-morrow, what delight is in to-morrow!
What laughter and what music, breathing joy,
Float from the woods and pastures, wavering down,
Dropping like echoes through the long to-day,
Where childhood waits with weary expectation.- T. B. Read, The New Pastoral, Book VI, line 163
- Nemo tamen divos habuit faventeis
Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.- No one has had gods so favourable to him that he can promise himself a morrow.
- Seneca the Younger, Thyestes, Act III, line 619
- Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?
When young and old, and strong and weak,
Rich and poor; through joy and sorrow,
Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,—
In thy place—ah! well-a-day!
We find the thing we fled—To-day!- Percy Bysshe Shelley, To-Morrow
- To-morrow yet would reap to-day,
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay.- Alfred Tennyson, Love Thou the Land, Stanza 24
- Morgen, Morgen, nur nicht heute;
Sprechen immer träge Leute.- To-morrow, to-morrow, not to-day,
Hear the lazy people say. - Christian Felix Weiße, Der Aufschub
- To-morrow, to-morrow, not to-day,
- A Man he seems of cheerful yesterdays
And confident to-morrows.- William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book VII
- To-morrow is a satire on to-day,
And shows its weakness.- Edward Young, The Old Man's Relapse, line 6
- Some say "to-morrow" never comes,
A saying oft thought right;
But if to-morrow never came,
No end were of "to-night."
The fact is this, time flies so fast,
That e'er we've time to say
"To-morrow's come," presto! behold!
"To-morrow" proves "To-day."- Author Unknown. From Notes and Queries. Fourth Series, Volume XII
Misattributed
edit- Oogway: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present".
- Jonathan Aibel and Glen Berger, Kung Fu Panda, (2008).
- "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, Today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." (Regarded as an "anonymous poem", in Joan Chittister's Heart of Flesh (1998), p. 129; in Vital Issues: The Journal of African American Speeches (1998), Bethune-DuBois Publications, p. 27, and in Joan Rivers' "From Mother to Daughter" (1998), p. 30.)
- "Yesterday may be History, Tomorrow is Mystery and Today is our Golden Opportunity!" (As quoted in H.S. Cheesbrough's Canada Lumberman, Volume 62 (1942), Southam-Maclean.
- "Live today. The past is gone. Today is God's gift to us, whether it be a day of storm or sunshine. Tomorrow may never come, and that is immaterial." (From Friends' Intelligencer, Volume 91, No.1-26 (1934), p. 21)
- "Yesterday is history; to-morrow is merely a hope; to-day is the only absolute asset of time that is yours." From Frank Pixley's Thoughts and Things (1912), in , Duffield & Company, p. 29.
- Jonathan Aibel and Glen Berger, Kung Fu Panda, (2008).
- Alvin Toffler: Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.
- Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy as quoted by Alvin Toffler in Future Shock (1970), ch. 18, p. 414
