Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884Quotes
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, 1859The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCTime will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCThe future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873