Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCQuotes
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 BCEvery man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The 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, 1888The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCHe alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Destiny 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, 1899Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688