present

The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.

Dear Lord, the gods have been good to me. As an offering, I present these milk and cookies. If you wish me to eat them instead, please give me no sign whatsoever. . . . Thy will be done. (munch, munch, munch)

It's not a single idea, but many ideas and attitudes, including a reverence for nature and a preference for country life; a desire for maximum personal self-reliance and creative leisure; a concern for family nurture and community cohesion; a certain hostility toward luxury; a belief that the primary reward of work should be well-being rather than money; a certain nostalgia for the supposed simplicities of the past and an anxiety about the technological and bureaucratic complexities of the present and the future; and a taste for the plain and functional.

Past performance produces present privileges.

Time past is gone, thou canst not it recall; Time is thou hast, improve that portion small; Time future is not, and may never be. Time present is the only time for thee.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson. You find the present tense and the past perfect.

Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a cat-nap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee.

My eyes see the present and my mind paints the future.

A man anxious to tell a dirty story asked, "Are there any ladies present?" Ulysses S. Grant spoke up and replied, "There are no ladies present, but there are gentlemen."

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past.