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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

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

—Voltaire, 1764

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

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

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

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC