I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Quotes
Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCAll progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620