Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Quotes
Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The 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, 1888Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCI’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCOften the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873