We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers. — Kenneth Rand Copy Share Image
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing!… — Charles Wolfe Copy Share Image
A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be,… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
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… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image