today quotes

  • Faith, Sir, we are here to-day, and gone to-morrow.

    - Brendan Francis Behan
      The Lucky Chance, act 4.

  • Celuy vit seulement, lequel vit aujourdhuy. Only the person who lives for today lives at all.

    -Joachim du Bellay
      Les Regrets, no.65.

  • Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness; When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and saw my works.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Psalm 95:8^9.

  • If you go down in the woods today You're sure of a big surprise If you down in the woods today You'd better go in disguise. For every Bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain because, Today's the day theTeddy Bears have their Picnic.

    -JohnW Bratton
      'The Teddy Bears' Picnic' (with  James B Kennedy).

  • If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

    -JuliusJ Epstein
      Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch).

  • The most important and urgent problems of the technology of todayare no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages wrought by the technology of yesterday.

    - Dennis Gabor
      Innovations.

  • The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here todayin next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumpedalways somebody else's horizon!

    - Kenneth Grahame
       Toad rhapsodizes about the motor car. The Wind in the Willows, ch.2.

  • Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people Living for today.

    -JohnWinston Lennon
      'Imagine'.

  • Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui. The virgin, the vibrant and the beautiful today.

    - Ste  phane Mallarme 
    Plusieurs Sonnets, no.1.

  • Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men do not say 'I shall live on.' Tomorrow's life's too late; live today.

    -Martial full name MarcusValerius Martialis
    Epigrams, bk.1, no.15.

  • Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

    - FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche
      The Genealogy of Morals, essay 3,'What Do  Ascetic Ideals Mean?'

  • All the poet can do today is to warn. That is why the true Poet must be truthful.

    -Wilfred Owen
      Poems (published1920), preface.

  • A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

    - Alexander Pope
      Miscellanies,'Thoughts onVarious Subjects', vol.2.

  •    Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.

    -Punch

  • Today we have naming of parts.Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But today, Today we have naming of parts.Japonica Glistens like coral in all of the neighbouring gardens And today we have naming of parts.

    - Henry Reed
      Lessons of theWar, pt.1,'Naming of Parts'.

  • As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

    - Henry Reed
      'ChardWhitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)', a parody ofT S Eliot's style.

  • Communications today puts a special emphasis on what happens next, for an able, sophisticated and competitive press knows that what happens today is no longer newsit is what isgoing to happen tomorrow that is the object of interest and concern.

    - (David) Dean Rusk
      At Time's 40th anniversary dinner,17 May.

  • When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun roseand set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?† What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my country?

    -Sitting Bull real name Tatanka Iyotake
    c.1866  Quoted inT C McLuhan Touch the Earth (1973).

  • We beat them today or Molly Stark's a widow.

    -John Stark
      Speech before the Battle of Bennington,16 Aug. Quoted in Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol.5.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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