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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

—Albert Camus, 1951

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873