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And always, in our highly regularised way of life, [the modern man] is obsessed by thoughts of the morrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-09), “The Role of Individuality,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 3, BBC Radio

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Russell, Bertrand - Lecture (1949-01-09), "The Role of Individuality," Reith Lecture, "Authority and the Individual" No. 3, BBC Radio | WIST Quotations

And always, in our highly regularised way of life, [the modern man] is obsessed by thoughts of the morrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 23, 2025

A quotation from Horace

’Mid hopes and fears and passion’s stormy strife
Think, every day that dawns, the last of life:
Thus shall each hour that lengthens nature’s treat,
By coming unexpected, come more sweet.

[Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras,
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum:
Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 4 “To Albius Tibullus,” l. 12ff (1,4.12-14) (20 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

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"I don’t want life to pass us by, and I want to do cool things that we can have booked to look forward to, enjoy doing, and then reminisce about later."

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Sep 2, 2025

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: “Live for the moment” is my motto. You never know how long you’ve got! You could step into the road tomorrow and — WHAM — you get hit by a cement truck! Then you’ll be sorry you put off your pleasures! That’s why I say “Live for the Moment.” What’s your motto?
HOBBES: “Look down the road.”

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1990-11-21)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Sep 2, 2025

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: “Live for the moment” is my motto. You never know how long you’ve got! You could step into the road tomorrow and — WHAM — you get hit by a cement truck! Then you’ll be sorry you put off your pleasures! That’s why I say “Live for the Moment.” What’s your motto?
HOBBES: “Look down the road.”

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1990-11-21)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 27, 2025

A quotation from Douglas Adams

Ah, Bates, you and your expectations. Always expecting this and expecting that. May I recommend serenity to you? A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Learn to be one with the joy of the moment.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Dirk Gently, No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 4 [Dirk] (1988)

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Dirk Gently, No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 4 [Dirk] (1988) - Adams, Douglas | WIST Quotations

Ah, Bates, you and your expectations. Always expecting this and expecting that. May I recommend serenity to you? A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Learn to be one with the joy of the moment.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 13, 2025

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. If there is a fill of tobacco among the crew, for God’s sake pass it round, and let us have a pipe before we go!

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!May 7, 2025

A quotation from Thomas Fuller

Since Life is so very short, live as much as thou canst in so short a Time.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 1757 (1727)

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WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 15, 2024

A quotation from Selden, John:

«
While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to the end that they were given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in Heaven.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/selden-john/3496/

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