The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931Quotes
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCReal generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCThe future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCI’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Destiny 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, 1899We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816