Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Quotes
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, 1888Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCI’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Destiny 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, 1899Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCMy interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCThe future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790