The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Quotes
Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCGod seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCTime will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCDestiny 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, 1899I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941As 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, 1859