It is all one a hundred years hence.
Meaning: Mortality makes present troubles insignificant; time erases all distinctions between important and trivial matters.
Origin: A consolation often heard as "it will be all the same a hundred years hence": a hundred years from now, today's trouble will not matter at all. Its first appearance has not been traced.
Equivalents in Spanish
- Spanish: A cabo de cien años todos seremos calvos (literally: A hundred years hence we shall all be bald)
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