Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

To-day, To-morrow

Better have an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow.Italian.

Enjoy to-day, for to-morrow the first gray hairs may come.Punch.

Have you somewhat to do to-morrow, do it to-day.Franklin.

He who falls to-day may rise to-morrow.Don Quixote.

If things look badly to-day, they may look better to-morrow.

If to-day will not, to-morrow may.

It is better to have a hen to-morrow than an egg to-day.

Never defer till to-morrow that which you can do to-day.

One hour to-day is worth two to-morrow.

One to-day is worth two to-morrows.German.

Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow.Danish.

To-day me, to-morrow thee.

To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow.German.

To-day’s sorrows will bring not to-morrow.Dutch.

To-morrow’s remedy will not ward off the evil of to-day.Spanish.

Use not to-day what to-morrow may want.Ancient Brahmin.

What is wrong to-day won’t be right to-morrow.Dutch.

What one loses to-day one may gain to-morrow.Don Quixote.

What’s my turn to-day, may be thine to-morrow.

You saddle to-day and ride out to-morrow.