Logo
Quote by Sydney Smith
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy

We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

Category:
Letters
Author
Sydney Smith
Read Quote

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. – Sydney Smith

Category:
Mistakes
Author
Sydney Smith
Read Quote

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith

Category:
Happiness
Author
Sydney Smith
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Live Now
category

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

Category:
Live Now

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. – Chris Cobbs

Category:
Live Now

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. – Jim Bishop

Category:
Live Now

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. – Carl Sandburg, “Prairie,” Complete Poems, 1950

Category:
Live Now

Random Quotes

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet. – Tyra Banks

Category:
mom

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. – John Lyly

Category:
Shame

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guys playing blues like we play, hes in high school. When he starts playing jazz its like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. – B. B. King

Category:
Learning

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. – Carl Sandburg

Category:
Grammar