Morrow Quotes - Page 10

The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble to arrive till to-morrow. Whichever she did Mrs Leak would not mind. That was one of the advantages of dealing with witches; they do not mind if you are a little odd in your ways, frown if you are late for meals, fret if you are out all night, pry and commiserate when at length you return. Lovely to be with people who prefer their thoughts to yours, lovely to live at your own sweet will, lovely to sleep out all night!

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Love, Sweet, Sleep

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

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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?

James Hogg

Broken, Sorrow, World

James Hogg (1840). “The poetical works of the Ettrick shepherd: including the Queen's wake, Pilgrims of the sun, Mador of the moor, Mountain bard, &c. &c”, p.168

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Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Equality, Night, Men

Elizabeth Gaskell (1872). “Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell”, p.315

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To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

Omar Khayyam

Heaven, Sorrow, Counting

Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

Matthew Arnold

Disappointment, New Beginnings, Light

Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

Joanna Baillie

Eye, Dark, Moon

Joanna Baillie, Jennifer Breen (1999). “The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851”, p.79, Manchester University Press

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To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

Robert Bridges

Waking, Empty, Empty Words

Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.

Neal A. Maxwell

Wise, Wall, Heart

"Deposition of a Disciple". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 5, 1976.

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I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

Guy de Maupassant

Life, Lucky, Care

Guy de Maupassant (2007). “The Horla and Other Stories”, p.38, Wildside Press LLC

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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.

John Clare

Shadow, Empty, Ends

John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.379, Delphi Classics

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A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

Mary Antin

Men, Unfinished Work, Yesterday

Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

Vash Young

Have Faith, Decided

Vash Young (2009). “A Fortune to Share”, p.48, Lulu.com

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But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

Brenda Ueland

Peace, Artist, People

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... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our days glide gently and imperceptibly along, like the motion of the hour-hand, which we cannot discover. ... we advance gradually; we are the same to-day as yesterday, and to-morrow as to-day: thus we go on, without perceiving it, which is a miracle of the Providence I adore.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Kindness, Hands, Yesterday

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... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

Mary Augusta Ward

May, Moments

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To-morrow is ah, whose?

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Tomorrow

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Between Two Worlds”

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To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

Roger L'Estrange

Men, Wish, Venture

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Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.

Lajos Kossuth

Eye, Winter, Past

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If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

Nikola Tesla

Humanity, Secret, Genius

Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Epicurus

Future, Men, Independence

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We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sunshine

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

Lope de Vega

Today, Tomorrow, Can Do

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