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Horace3 quotes
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! — Horace · 23 BCCease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. — Horace · 23 BCHe will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine." — Horace · 23 BCBoris Pasternak1 quote
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. — Boris Pasternak · 1958Dominic Toretto1 quote
I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all that bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free. — Dominic Toretto · 2001Garth Algar1 quote
Live in the now. — Garth Algar · 1992Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838John Lennon1 quote
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon · 1980Lorenzo de Medici1 quote
How beautiful is youth,
that is always slipping away!
Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so:
of tomorrow there's no knowing. — Lorenzo de Medici · 1490Martial1 quote
Wise men don't say, "I shall live to do that". Tomorrow's life's too late; live today. — Martial · 103Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1839Robert Browning1 quote
Who knows but the world may end tonight? — Robert Browning · 1855Robert Herrick1 quote
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick · 1648Thomas Mann1 quote
Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. — Thomas Mann · 1939Thornton Wilder1 quote
My advice to you is not to inquire into why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-that's my philosophy. — Thornton Wilder · 1942Walter Hagen1 quote
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. — Walter Hagen · 1956William Shakespeare1 quote
What is love? ’Tis not hereafter.
Present mirth hath present laughter.
What’s to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
Youth’s a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare · 1602