Quotes
Quotes about Present
I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray; Rosy and round as an apple is he, Content with the present whate'er it may be, While from care and from cash he is equally free, And merry both night and day! "Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he, "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!" What a gay little man in gray.
We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.
Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity.
The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des representants du peuple, plus j'aime mes chiens.]
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.".
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my works? I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should present me with yours.
In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
Every situation, every momentâis of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obviousâbecause the obvious is what people need to be told.
