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tomorrow never comes

1. A goal or action which is postponed until a future day is often never accomplished; do not procrastinate.
   • 1885, G. A. Henty, chapter 4, in In Freedom's Cause:

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

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

     Don't wait until tomorrow; tomorrow never comes. Don't wait for some one else to start; start it yourself.

   • 2006, Mutea Rukwaru, Successful Time Management, →ISBN, page xv:

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

2. Tomorrow has no reality, since every day is experienced as today.
   • 1884, Warren Felt Evans, The Divine Law of Cure, page 107:

     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.

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

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

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

     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

   • 1985 January 11, Jim Davis, Garfield Makes it Big (Garfield)‎ (comic):

     You'll regret it tomorrow.
     Tomorrow never comes!

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

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