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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

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

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859