The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colours have read more

When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has
died,
We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon
or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.

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

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

. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And read more

. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military read more

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit read more

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make read more

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The future ain't what it used to be.