tomorrow never comes

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English

Proverb

tomorrow never comes

  1. A goal or action which is postponed until a future day is often never accomplished; do not procrastinate.
    • 1885, G. A. Henty, chapter 4, in In Freedom's Cause:
      "I will take you tomorrow," he said.
      "Tomorrow never comes," Archie replied with a laugh.
    • 1909, “Fall in Line”, in Seamen's Journal, volume 23, page 11:
      Don't wait until tomorrow; tomorrow never comes. Don't wait for some one else to start; start it yourself.
    • 2006, Mutea Rukwaru, Successful Time Management, →ISBN, page xv:
      Avoid procrastination like the plague. Some people make a habit of putting things off to tomorrow and then find that somehow tomorrow never comes.
  2. Tomorrow has no reality, since every day is experienced as today.
    • 1884, Warren Felt Evans, The Divine Law of Cure, page 107:
      We never go beyond the present. We reach that point but never pass it. Tomorrow never comes. Our existence is enclosed within the divine moment, the eternal now.
    • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 13, in Tarzan the Terrible, A. C. McClurg:
      "But tomorrow they give me to Bu-lot," she said sadly.
      "May it be always tomorrow," replied Tarzan, "for tomorrow never comes."
    • 1984, Giancarlo Bigazzi, Steve Piccolo, Raf, “Self Control”, performed by Laura Branigan:
      I live among the creatures of the night / I haven't got the will to try and fight / Against a new tomorrow / So I guess I'll just believe it / That tomorrow never comes
    • 1985 January 11, Jim Davis, Garfield Makes it Big (Garfield)‎ (comic):
      You'll regret it tomorrow.
      Tomorrow never comes!
    • 2008, Jonathan Goodwin, We Support You , Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 88:
      The truth is, tomorrow never comes! The minute you step into your tomorrow, it becomes your today.