Quotations About / On: TODAY

  • 1.
    Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
    (Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Primislaus, in Libussa, act 3 (1872).)
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  • 2.
    The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for a vast future also.
    (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. annual message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1861. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 5, p. 53, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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  • 3.
    Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 4.
    Has Michael Finn been in here today?
    (Mahatma Kane Jeeves, U.S. screenwriter, and Eddie Eddie. Egbert Sousé (W.C. Fields), The Bank Dick, remark to a bartender (Shemp Howard) to get an extra-strong drink—known as a "Mickey Finn"Mfor unsuspecting bank examiner Mr. Snoop (Franklin J. Pangborn) (1940).)
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  • 5.
    Little Marthe did it again today.
    (Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Invitation to a Beheading, ch. 2 (1959).)
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  • 6.
    Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
    (Tony Benn (b. 1925), British Labour politician. speech, Jan. 31, 1963.)
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  • 7.
    Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an "act" and he told the audience, "This is my act." Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
    (Lenny Bruce (1925-1966), U.S. satirical comedian. "Performing and the Art of Comedy," The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen (1967).)
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  • 8.
    The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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  • 9.
    The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
    (Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), U.S. suffragist, social reformer, and author. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 5, ch. 1, by Ida Husted Harper (1922). From a paper sent to the thirty-third annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association and read aloud on May 30, 1901, by her longtime colleague and closest friend, Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906). At this point, Anthony and Stanton, both in their eighties, were "Honorary Presidents" of the Association. Anthony had opposed Stanton's submitting this paper, urging her instead to send one of her usual rousing arguments on behalf of suffrage. Stanton refused, saying that such statements were passe; creator of a controversial Woman's Bible (1895-1898), she had become very interested in the roles played by theology and the church in suppressing women's rights.)
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  • 10.
    The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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