Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCQuotes
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCMen are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688