The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856Quotes
Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCPeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCLittle folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCMen are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816