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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

—Albert Camus, 1951

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

—Sigmund Freud, 1927

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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

Destiny 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, 1899

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

—C.S. Lewis, 1941