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’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)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79940/

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Jim @ RouteToRetire Oct 7

"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)

More info about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/78739…

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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)

More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/29662/

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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

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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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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