He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Quotes
The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951As 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, 1859All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890