“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=qCDpAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Fame+is+a+vapor+popularity+an+accident+the+only+earthly+certainty+is+oblivion%22&pg=PA114#v=onepage <br class="br">Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
Francis Crick (1916–2004) British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Of Molecules and Men (1966)
“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”
Zeena Schreck (1963) Tantric Buddhist/Sethian
Léon Foucault (1819–1868) French physicist
As quoted in The Life and Science of Léon Foucault : The Man Who Proved the Earth Rotates (2003) by William Tobin, p. 93.
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”
Bob Dylan book Chronicles: Volume One
Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1
Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
Variant: From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
“Today's today. Tomorrow we may be
ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.”
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 788
Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader
Quotes from Word of Wisdoms Vol.3
