tomorrow never comes

proverb

A goal or action which is postponed until a future day is often never accomplished; do not procrastinate.

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Meanings

proverb
  1. A goal or action which is postponed until a future day is often never accomplished; do not procrastinate.

    "I will take you tomorrow," he said. "Tomorrow never comes," Archie replied with a laugh.

    1885, G. A. Henty, chapter 4, in In Freedom's Cause
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    Don't wait until tomorrow; tomorrow never comes. Don't wait for some one else to start; start it yourself.

    1909, “Fall in Line”, in Seamen's Journal, volume 23, page 11

    Avoid procrastination like the plague. Some people make a habit of putting things off to tomorrow and then find that somehow tomorrow never comes.

    2006, Mutea Rukwaru, Successful Time Management, →ISBN, page xv
  2. Tomorrow has no reality, since every day is experienced as today.

    You'll regret it tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes!

    1985 January 11, Jim Davis, Garfield Makes it Big (Garfield) (comic)
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    We never go beyond the present. We reach that point but never pass it. Tomorrow never comes. Our existence is enclosed within the divine moment, the eternal now.

    1884, Warren Felt Evans, The Divine Law of Cure, page 107

    "But tomorrow they give me to Bu-lot," she said sadly. "May it be always tomorrow," replied Tarzan, "for tomorrow never comes."

    1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 13, in Tarzan the Terrible, A. C. McClurg

    I live among the creatures of the night / I haven't got the will to try and fight / Against a new tomorrow / So I guess I'll just believe it / That tomorrow never comes

    1984, Giancarlo Bigazzi, Steve Piccolo, Raf, “Self Control”, performed by Laura Branigan

    The truth is, tomorrow never comes! The minute you step into your tomorrow, it becomes your today.

    2008, Jonathan Goodwin, We Support You […] , Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 88
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