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Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.

Unknown

And yesterday, when she’d claimed a quiet place on

Susan May Warren

No man should ever 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.

_Pope._

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise to-day.

Proverb.

The world goes up, and the world goes down, / And the sunshine follows the rain; / And yesterday's sneer, and yesterday's frown, / Can never come over again.

_C. Kingsley._

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Oscar Wilde

The acts of breathing which I performed yesterday will not keep me alive to-day; I must continue to breathe afresh every moment, or animal life ceases. In like manner yesterday's grace and spiritual strength must be renewed, and the Holy Spirit must continue to breathe on my soul from moment to moment in order to my enjoying the consolations, and to my working the works of God.--_Toplady._

Various     Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll

I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

Santosh Kalwar

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Frank Lloyd Wright (born 8 June 1867

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Rabindranath Tagore

Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, and he that was yesterday at the top lies to-day at the bottom.

_Sp. Pr._

O, call back yesterday, bid time return!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2._

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,--yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS. 121-180 A. D.     _Meditations. iv. 48._

~Intemperance.~--The body, overcharged with the excess of yesterday, weighs down the mind together with itself, and fixes to the earth that particle of the divine spirit.--_Horace._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

But yesterday the word of C?sar might / Have stood against the world; now lies he there, / And none so poor to do him reverence.

_Jul. C?s._, iii. 2.

Epaminondas, that heathen captain, finding himself lifted up in the day of his public triumph, the next day went drooping and hanging down his head; but being asked what was the reason of his so great dejection, made answer: "Yesterday I felt myself transported with vainglory, therefore I chastise myself for it to-day."--_Plutarch._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

>Yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

NEW TESTAMENT.     _Hebrews xiii. 8._

At 5:00 a.m. the clubs get going properly; the Forbes stumble down from their loggias, grinning and swaying tipsily. They are all dressed the same, in expensive striped silk shirts tucked into designer jeans, all tanned and plump and glistening with money and self-satisfaction. They join the cattle on the dance floor. Everyone is wrecked by now and bounces around sweating, so fast it’s almost in slow motion. They exchange these sweet, simple glances of mutual recognition, as if the masks have come off and they’re all in on one big joke. And then you realize how equal the Forbes and the girls really are. They all clambered out of one Soviet world. The oil geyser has shot them to different financial universes, but they still understand each other perfectly. And their sweet, simple glances seem to say how amusing this whole masquerade is, that yesterday we were all living in communal flats and singing Soviet anthems and thinking Levis and powdered milk were the height of luxury, and now we’re surrounded by luxury cars and jets and sticky Prosecco. And though many westerners tell me they think Russians are obsessed with money, I think they’re wrong: the cash has come so fast, like glitter shaken in a snow globe, that it feels totally unreal, not something to hoard and save but to twirl and dance in like feathers in a pillow fight and cut like papier-mâché into different, quickly changing masks. At 5:00 a.m. the music goes faster and faster, and in the throbbing, snowing night the cattle become Forbeses and the Forbeses cattle, moving so fast now they can see the traces of themselves caught in the strobe across the dance floor. The guys and girls look at themselves and think: “Did that really happen to me? Is that me there? With all the Maybachs and rapes and gangsters and mass graves and penthouses and sparkly dresses?

Peter Pomerantsev

>Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

The outer passes away; the inmost is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

_Carlyle._

Genius never grows old; young to-day, mature yesterday, vigorous to-morrow: always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and is the divine gift to woman no less than to man.--_Juan Lewis._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

In the morning! Then God means me to be at my best in strength and hope. I have not to climb in my weakness. In the night I have buried yesterday's fatigue, and in the morning I take a new lease of energy.

Various     Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them. I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.

Laurence Binyon (born 10 August 1869

A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

OLD TESTAMENT.     _Psalm xc. 4._

One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures; and where they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied by analogy.

_Junius._

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason; / Work'st thou well to-day for worthy things; / Calmly wait the morrow's hidden season; / Need'st not fear what hap soe'er it brings.

_Carlyle, after Goethe._

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

John Guare

The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed--but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day. My unmoving mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing of what I have in God. He is "my strong habitation whereunto I can continually resort." I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

Charles H. Spurgeon

>Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

JOHN ADAMS. 1735-1826.     _Letter to Mrs. Adams, July 3, 1776._

Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3._

When Jesus sits in the ship everything is in its right place. The cargo is in the hold, _not in the heart_. Cares and gains, fears and losses, yesterday's failure and today's success do not thrust themselves in between us and His presence. The heart cleaves to _Him_. "Goodness and mercy shall _follow_ me," sang the psalmist. Alas, when the goodness and mercy come before us, and our blessings shut Jesus from view! Here is the blessed order--the Lord ever first, I following Him, His goodness and mercy following me.--_Mark Guy Pearse._

Various     Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

We forget that Jesus Christ is the same to-day, when He is sitting on the throne, as He was yesterday, when He trod the pathway of our world. And in this forgetfulness how much we miss! What He was, that He is. What He said, that He says. The Gospels are simply specimens of the life that He is ever living; they are leaves torn out of the diary of His unchangeable Being. To-day He is engaged in washing the feet of His disciples, soiled with their wilderness journeyings. Yes, that charming incident is having its fulfilment in thee, my friend, if only thou dost not refuse the lowly loving offices of Him whom we call Master and Lord, but who still girds Himself and comes forth to serve. And we must have this incessant cleansing if we would keep right. It is not enough to look back to a certain hour when we first knelt at the feet of the Son of God for pardon; and heard Him say, "Thy sins, which are many, are all forgiven." We need daily, hourly cleansing--from daily, hourly sin.--_F. B. Meyer._

Various     Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Stephen R. Covey

But yesterday the word of C?sar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _Julius C?sar. Act iii. Sc. 2._

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to-day.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

We usually lose the to-day, because there has been a yesterday, and to-morrow is coming.

_Goethe._

Truly those who die young are blest. And shall we find them again such as they left us? Why not? It is really here on earth that those whom we love change, it is here that they die every day.... Where are all those bright joyous faces which we look at when we open our photograph books from year to year? On earth they are lost, but are they not treasured up for another life, where we shall be not only what we are from day to day, never the same to-morrow as we were yesterday, but where we are at once all that we can be--where memory is not different from perception, nor our wills different from our acts? We shall soon know--till then surely we have a right to be what we are, and to cling to our human hopes. The more human they are, the nearer the truth they are likely to be.

Friedrich Max Müller     Thoughts on Life and Religion

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

William Osler

Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, / And still a new to-morrow does come on. / We by to-morrow draw out all our store, / Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

_Cowley._

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

About Business

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

DANIEL DEFOE. 1663-1731.     _The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1._

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 to-morrow.

_Jeremy Taylor._

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

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 today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope (born 21 May 1688

>Yesterday I was a dog.  Today I'm a dog.  Tomorrow I'll probably still

be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

"Surely the Lord was in this place, and I knew it not." My soul, this is also thine experience! How often hast thou said in thy sorrow, "Verily thou art a God that hidest Thyself!" How often hast thou slept for very heaviness of heart, and desired not to wake again! And when thou didst wake again, lo, the darkness was all a dream! Thy vision of yesterday was a delusion. God had been with thee all the night with that radiance which has no need of the sun.

Various     Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

>Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Khalil Gibran (born 6 January 1883

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. It is a materialization, an incarnation of his inner world. Then he hopes to attract others into it. He hopes to impose his particular vision and share it with others. And when the second stage is not reached, the brave artist continues nevertheless. The few moments of communion with the world are worth the pain, for it is a world for others, an inheritance for others, a gift to others, in the end. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anaïs Nin ~ Erratum : This QOTD originally was presented with the statement "All writers have concealed more than they revealed" at the start of it. This is also quote of Anaïs Nin, but from a later portion of the same work, and after reviewing my notes, I believe its inclusion at the start of this statement was a transcription error entirely on my part, as I rather hurriedly gathered up ideas to use for QOTD in the brief time I had the day before yesterday. In over 11 years of QOTD work, I believe this is the first time I have made this type of error, and will be on guard against repeating it in the future. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 22 February 2015 (UTC

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ― Albert Einstein

Inspirational

The curtains of yesterday drop down, the curtains of to-morrow roll up; but yesterday and to-morrow both are. Pierce into the Time-element, glance into the Eternal.

_Carlyle._

Quin corpus onustum / Hesternis vitiis animum quoque pr?gravat una, / Atque affigit humo divin? particulam aur?=--And the body, overcharged with yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul also along with it, and fastens to the ground a particle of the divine ether.

Horace.

>Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Mother Teresa

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Warren Edward Buffett

The sorrow of Yesterday is as nothing; that of To-day is bearable; but that of To-morrow is gigantic, because indistinct.

_Euripides._

We are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.

_Bible._

>Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Bil Keane

The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.

CHARLES KINGSLEY. 1819-1875.     _Dolcino to Margaret._

To-morrow will I live, the fool does say: / To-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.

_Cowley._

Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities. Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seemingly contradicting the rational experience of yesterday. There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental.

Paul Klee (born 18 December 1879

Too Late

    A large number of turkies [sic] went to San Francisco yesterday by

the two o'clock boats.  If their object in going down was to participate in

the Thanksgiving festivities of that city, they would arrive "the day after

the affair," and of course be sadly disappointed thereby.

        -- Sacramento Daily Union, November 29, 1861

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Dustin Farnum:    Why, yesterday, I had the audience glued to their seats!

Oliver Herford:    Wonderful!  Wonderful!  Clever of you to think of it!

        -- Brian Herbert, "Classic Comebacks"

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An Hacker there was, one of the finest sort

Who controlled the system; graphics was his sport.

A manly man, to be a wizard able;

Many a protected file he had sitting on his table.

His console, when he typed, a man might hear

Clicking and feeping wind as clear,

Aye, and as loud as does the machine room bell

Where my lord Hacker was Prior of the cell.

The Rule of good St Savage or St Doeppnor

As old and strict he tended to ignore;

He let go by the things of yesterday</p>

And took the modern world's more spacious way.

He did not rate that text as a plucked hen

Which says that Hackers are not holy men.

And that a hacker underworked is a mere

Fish out of water, flapping on the pier.

That is to say, a hacker out of his cloister.

That was a text he held not worth an oyster.

And I agreed and said his views were sound;

Was he to study till his head wend round

Poring over books in the cloisters?  Must he toil

As Andy bade and till the very soil?

Was he to leave the world upon the shelf?

Let Andy have his labor to himself!

        -- Chaucer

        [well, almost.  Ed.]

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People will do tomorrow what they did today because that is what they

did yesterday.

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The person you rejected yesterday could make you happy, if you say yes.

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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

        -- William Allen White

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The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

        -- Hegel

I know guys can't learn from yesterday ... Hegel must be taking the long view.

        -- John Brunner, "Stand on Zanzibar"

Fortune Cookie

    There once was a man who went to a computer trade show.  Each day as

he entered, the man told the guard at the door:

    "I am a great thief, renowned for my feats of shoplifting.  Be

forewarned, for this trade show shall not escape unplundered."

    This speech disturbed the guard greatly, because there were millions

of dollars of computer equipment inside, so he watched the man carefully.

But the man merely wandered from booth to booth, humming quietly to himself.

    When the man left, the guard took him aside and searched his clothes,

but nothing was to be found.

    On the next day of the trade show, the man returned and chided the

guard saying: "I escaped with a vast booty yesterday, but today will be even

better."  So the guard watched him ever more closely, but to no avail.

    On the final day of the trade show, the guard could restrain his

curiosity no longer. "Sir Thief," he said, "I am so perplexed, I cannot live

in peace.  Please enlighten me.  What is it that you are stealing?"

    The man smiled.  "I am stealing ideas," he said.

        -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

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Witch!  Witch!  They'll burn ya!

        -- Hag, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate unknown

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>Yesterday upon the stair

I met a man who wasn't there.

He wasn't there again today --

I think he's from the CIA.

Fortune Cookie

Microsoft Corp., concerned by the growing popularity of the free 32-bit

operating system for Intel systems, Linux, has employed a number of top

programmers from the underground world of virus development. Bill Gates stated

>yesterday: "World domination, fast -- it's either us or Linus". Mr. Torvalds

was unavailable for comment ...

(rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk (Robert Manners), in comp.os.linux.setup)

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Wait!  You have not been prepared!

        -- Mr. Atoz, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate 3113.2

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Microsoft Corp., concerned by the growing popularity of the free 32-bit

operating system for Intel systems, Linux, has employed a number of top

programmers from the underground world of virus development.  Bill Gates stated

>yesterday: "World domination, fast -- it's either us or Linus".  Mr. Torvalds

was unavailable for comment ...

        -- Robert Manners, rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk, in comp.os.linux.setup

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Ignorance is never out of style.  It was in fashion yesterday, it is the

rage today, and it will set the pace tomorrow.

        -- Franklin K. Dane

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Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone,

Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you,

I went out this morning and I wrote down this song,

Just can't remember who to send it to...

Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain,

I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end,

I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,

But I always thought that I'd see you again.

Thought I'd see you one more time again.

        -- James Taylor, "Fire and Rain"

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Today is what happened to yesterday.

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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

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The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

        -- Lewis Carroll

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<Silvrbear> Oxymorons?  I saw one yesterday - the pamphlet on "Taco Bell

            Nutritional Information"

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First there was Dial-A-Prayer, then Dial-A-Recipe, and even Dial-A-Footballer.

But the south-east Victorian town of Sale has produced one to top them all.

Dial-A-Wombat.

    It all began early yesterday when Sale police received a telephone

call: "You won't believe this, and I'm not drunk, but there's a wombat in the

phone booth outside the town hall," the caller said.

    Not firmly convinced about the caller's claim to sobriety, members of

the constabulary drove to the scene, expecting to pick up a drunk.

    But there it was, an annoyed wombat, trapped in a telephone booth.

    The wombat, determined not to be had the better of again, threw its

bulk into the fray. It was eventually lassoed and released in a nearby scrub.

    Then the officers received another message ... another wombat in

another phone booth.

    There it was: *Another* angry wombat trapped in a telephone booth.

    The constables took the miffed marsupial into temporary custody and

released it, too, in the scrub.

    But on their way back to the station they happened to pass another

telephone booth, and -- you guessed it -- another imprisoned wombat.

    After some serious detective work, the lads in blue found a suspect,

and after questioning, released him to be charged on summons.

    Their problem ... they cannot find a law against placing wombats in

telephone booths.

        -- "Newcastle Morning Herald", NSW Australia, Aug 1980.

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I opened the drawer of my little desk and a single letter fell out, a

letter from my mother, written in pencil, one of her last, with unfinished

words and an implicit sense of her departure.  It's so curious: one can

resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief.  But

then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window... or one notices

that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed... or

a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

        -- Letters From Colette

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I:

    The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin

    with a silk sow.  The same is true of money.

II:

    If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would

    probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

III:

    There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

IV:

    If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

V:

    One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output.

    Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average

    output.

        -- Norman Augustine

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