You can never plan the future ...

You can never plan the future by the past.

~Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"~

When all else is lost, the fut...

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

~Christian Bovee~

We should all be concerned abo...

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

~Charles F. Kettering~

Trust no future, howe'er pleas...

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, a...

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

~Samuel Johnson~

Tis the sunset of life gives m...

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

~Thomas Campbell~

Till the sun grows cold, And t...

Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

~Bayard Taylor~

There was the door to which I ...

There was the door to which I found no key, There was the veil through which 1 might not see.

~Omar Khayyam~

There was a wise man in the Ea...

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.

~Alfred Mercier~

The trouble with our times is ...

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

~Paul Valery~

The present is great with the ...

The present is great with the future

~Baron von Leibnitz~

The present is great with the ...

The present is great with the future

~Baron von Leibnitz~

The gigantic shadows which fut...

The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley~

The future, according to some ...

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

~John Sladek~

The future will one day be the...

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

~W. Somerset Maugham~

The future looks extremely bri...

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.''

~Bruce Lee~

The future is called ""perhaps,...

The future is called ""perhaps,"" which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957~

The future is an opaque mirror...

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

~Jim Bishop~

The future is always beginning...

The future is always beginning now.

~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving~

The danger of the past was tha...

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems,'' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

~Erich Fromm~