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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

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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

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

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

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

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531