Quotes by Poets - Page 11

Tomorrow I will live the fool does say today itself's too late the wise lived yesterday.
Martial
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
William Cowper
Past and to come seems best things present worst.
William Shakespeare
Let us live today.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The present is an eternal now.
Abraham Cowley
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
Abraham Cowley
Act-act in the living Present!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The present is the blocks with which we build.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
D.H. Lawrence
The present is elastic to embrace infinity.
Louis Anspacher
There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
Mark Van Doren
Live now believe me wait not till tomorrow gather the roses of life today.
Pierre de Ronsard
He growled at morning noon and night And trouble sought to borrow Although today the sky was bright He knew t'would storm tomorrow A thought of joy he could not stand And struggled to resist it Though sunshine dappled all the land This sorry pessimist it.
Nixon Waterman
Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year and that's better.
George E. Woodberry
Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
Jean de La Fontaine
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
Martial
The universe is made of stories not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier
No past is dead for us but only sleeping love.
Helen Hunt Jackson
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fear not for the future weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
What's past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
Kahlil Gibran
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti
The past is a funeral gone by.
Edmund Gosse
Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Miguel de Cervantes
The past is the best prophet of the future.
Lord Byron
Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?
Letitia Landon
Here lies my past Goodbye I have kissed it Thank you kids I wouldn't have missed it.
Ogden Nash
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
This strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry its divided aims.
Matthew Arnold
Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!
Catullus
The worst time is always the present.
Jean de La Fontaine
The "good old times"-all times when old are good.
Lord Byron
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
Archibald MacLeish
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John Beecher
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.
George Santayana
Home is the place where when you have to go there They have to take you in.
Robert Frost
Where thou art that is Home.
Emily Dickinson
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern
Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest but let my last days be my best.
Robert Browning
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
D.H. Lawrence
The strength of a nation especially of a republican nation is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.
Lydia Sigourney
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Edward Young
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Lucan
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Light tomorrow with today!
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
Rainer Maria Rilke