Quotations on Present
The future is purchased by the present.
-Samuel Johnson
When you say now, it's automatically later.
-Gary McManus
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
-Henri Bergson
I'm not concerned about tomorrow but with what goes on today.
-Mark Spitz
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that is why we call it the present.
-some kid in my POL 211 class (3/2/98)
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I tire so of hearing people say, / Let things take their course. / Tomorrow is another day. / I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. / I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.
-Langston Hughes

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