Tomorrow is another day


What's the origin of the phrase 'Tomorrow is another day'?

‘Tomorrow is another day’ is famous for being the last line of Margaret Mitchells’s American Civil War novel Gone With The Wind, 1936:

Scarlett O’Hara: “Tara. Home. I’ll go home, and I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day”

The expression joins “Fiddle-dee-dee!” and “Great balls of fire!” as lines spoken by Scarlett O’Hara that have become commonplace in the language.

The line wasn’t coined by Mitchell however. It is found in print in several sources, for example, Harper’s Weekly, May 1857:

…never losing sight of that, to him, great and glorious fact, that “tomorrow is another day.”

See also: the List of Proverbs.

Gary Martin is a writer and researcher on the origins of phrases and the creator of the Phrase Finder website. Over the past 26 years more than 700 million of his pages have been downloaded by readers. He is one of the most popular and trusted sources of information on phrases and idioms.

Gary Martin

Writer and researcher on the origins of phrases and the creator of the Phrase Finder website. Over the past 26 years more than 700 million of his pages have been downloaded by readers. He is one of the most popular and trusted sources of information on phrases and idioms.