Archive

Quotes

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

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764

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

—Janis Joplin, 1972