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People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

As 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

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

—Paul Valéry, 1931