Cutting Quote by John Dryden

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

— Horace

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

— Horace

“Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree Of…

— Alexander Pope

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;…

— Omar Khayyam

“The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight…

— William Wordsworth

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

— Marcus Aurelius

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…

— William Congreve

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.

— James Russell Lowell

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

— William Shakespeare

“Methinks, Oh! vain ill-judging Book, I see thee cast a wishful look, Where reputations won and lost are In famous row called Paternoster. Incensed…

— Matthew Lewis

To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the shifting anchorage,…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper