The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

— Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

— Patrick Henry, attorney, planter, orator, and one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1736-1799

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

— Arthur Wing Pinero, English actor, dramatist, and stage director 1855-1934

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

— Paul Valery, French poet, essayist and philosopher, 1871-1945

One faces the future with one’s past.

— Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

— Christian Bovee, U.S. writer, 1820-1904
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