Today is yesterday's pupil. [ Proverb ]
For yesterday was once tomorrow. [ Persius ]
Each day is the scholar of yesterday. [ Publius Syrus ]
O, call back yesterday, bid time return. [ William Shakespeare ]
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. [ Daniel De Foe ]
Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say:
Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. [ Cowley ]
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
We usually lose the today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. [ Bible ]
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of Tomorrow roll up, but Yesterday and Tomorrow both are. [ Carlyle ]
A man should never blush in confessing his errors, for he proves by his avowal that he is wiser today than yesterday. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there. And none so poor to do him reverence. [ William Shakespeare ]
Every man's experience of today is that he was a fool yesterday and the day before yesterday. Tomorrow he will most likely be of exactly the same opinion. [ Charles Mackay ]
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and tomorrow we may never see. [ Victor Hugo ]
Earth has one angel less, and heaven one more since yesterday. Already, kneeling at the throne, she has received her welcome, and is resting on the bosom of her Saviour. [ Hawthorne ]
Enjoy the blessings of this day if God sends them; and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday, and we are not born to tomorrow. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Genius never grows old - young today, mature yesterday, vigorous tomorrow, always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and is the divine gift to woman no less than to man. [ Juan Lewis ]
Make use of time, if you love eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled. Tomorrow cannot be assured. Today is only yours, and if you procrastinate, you lose, and lose forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Euchiridion ]
Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity; know yesterday cannot be recalled, tomorrow cannot be assured; today is only thine; Which if thou procrastinate, thou losest; which lost, is lost forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Quarles ]
The flitting sunbeam has been grasped and made to do man's bidding in place of the painter's pencil. And although Franklin tamed the lightning, yet not until yesterday has its instantaneous flash been made the vehicle of language: thus in the transmission of thought annihilating space and time. [ Professor Robinson ]
Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]