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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

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

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

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

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC