A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Cf. L. hodie mihi, cras tibi, today it is my turn, tomorrow yours.

a 1250 Ancrene Wisse (1962) 143 Ille hodie, ego cras. He to dei, and ich to marhen

[he today, and I tomorrow]. 1620 T. SHELTON tr. Cervantes’ Don Quixote II. lxv. To day

for thee, and to-morrow for me. 1855 C. KINGSLEY Westward Ho! II. i. To-day to thee,

to-morrow to me. 1906 A. CONAN DOYLE Sir Nigel xv. ‘It is the custom of the Narrow

Seas,’ said they: ‘To-day for them; to-morrow for us.’ 1929 A. W. WHEEN tr. E. M.

Remarque’s All Quiet on Western Front ix. ‘Comrade,’ I say to the dead man, but I say it

calmly, ‘To-day you, to-morrow me.’ future

today see also JAM tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today; what
MANCHESTER says today, the rest of England says tomorrow; never PUT off till tomorrow
what you can do today.

told see one STORY is good till another is told.

Tom see MORE people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.

TOMORROW is another day

c 1527 J. RASTELL Calisto & Melebea C1V Well mother to morrow is a new day.

1603 J. FLORIO tr. Montaigne’s Essays II. iv. A letter.. beeing delivered him.. at supper,

he deferred the opening of it, pronouncing this by-word. To morrow is a new day. 1824

SCOTT St. Ronan’s Well III. vii. We will say no more of it at present. .. To-morrow is a

new day. 1927 P. GREEN Field God I. 148 Go to it, you Mag and Lonie! To-morrow’s

another day, and you’ll need all you can hold. 2001 K. HALL PAGE Body in Moonlight

vii. 127 ‘Maybe tomorrow,’ Faith said, trying to turn the corners of her mouth up.

‘Tomorrow’s another day.’ future

TOMORROW never comes

1523 LD. BERNERS Froissart (1901) II. 309 It was sayde every day among them,

we shall fight tomorowe, the whiche day came never. 1602 J. CHAMBERLAIN Letter 8

May (1939) I. 142 Tomorrow comes not yet. 1678 J. RAY English Proverbs (ed. 2) 343

Tomorrow come never. 1756 B. FRANKLIN Poor Richard’s Almanack (July) To-

morrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that To-morrow never comes. 1889 GISSING

Nether World III. ix. ‘It’s probably as well for you that to-morrow never comes.’ ‘Now

just see how things turn out!’ went on the other. 2001 Washington Post 27 Mar. C11 (Jeff