"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra

"FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"You can never plan the future by the past." - Edmund Burke, letter (1791)

"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities." - Benjamin N. Cardozo

"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." - Arthur C. Clarke

"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous." - George Eliot, Middlemarch

"The best of seers is he who guesses well." - Euripides, fragment

"I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable." - Eugene Forsey

"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true." - Eric Hoffer

"The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done." - Elwyn Brooks White

"Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness." - Edward Young

"'We are always doing,' says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.'" - JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." - BIBLE, Matthew 6:34

"Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." - BIBLE, Proverbs 27:1

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one." - JOHN GALSWORTHY, Swan Song

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." - SYDNEY J. HARRIS, quoted in Reader's Digest

"But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." - JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, The Tract on Monetary Reform

"The Future . . . something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." - C.S. LEWIS, The Screwtape Letters

"I have been over into the future, and it works." - LINCOLN STEFFENS, Autobiography

"The future is made of the same stuff as the present." - SIMONE WEIL, in On Science, Necessity and the Love of God, ed. Richard Rees

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese Proverb

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Einstein, Albert

"I have long considered it it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If were not, life would surely be unbearable." - Forsey, Eugene

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." - -- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Kierkegaard, Soren (1813-1855)

"Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) in '1984'

"Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it." - Santayana, George (1863-1952) in 'Life of Reason'

"People always find it easier to be a result of the past rather than a cause of the future." - Unknown