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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

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

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

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

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1893