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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

—James Russell Lowell, 1884

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

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

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC