Quotes of Forethought - somelinesforyou

“ Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection. ”

- Edward Streeter

“ To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ The best thing about a vacation is planning it. ”

- Andrew A. Rooney

“ There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ We always plan too much and always think too little. ”

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

“ According to her cloth she cut her coat. ”

- John Dryden

“ It is good the have a hatch before the durre. ”

- John Heywood

“ Yee have many strings to your bowe. ”

- John Heywood

“ Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ Precaution is better than cure. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Look before you ere you leap. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Better is to bow than breake. ”

- John Heywood

“ Always be planning something. ”

- John A. Schindler

“ Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. ”

- Cervantes

“ In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed. ”

- James Jones

“ Dine on little, and sup on less. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. ”

- Charles Dudley Warner

“ Initiative is doing the right things without being told. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ”

- Unknown

“ We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. ”

- Randolph Silliman Bourne

“ I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it… It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day. ”

- Leonardo DiCaprio

“ The planning is going to go forward outside of NATO if necessary. ”

- Donald Rumsfeld

“ I'm just trying to get in, it's not like I'm running for Jesus. ”

- Homer Simpson

“ Everybody's full of anticipation seeing this thing out in the bay,... They want to see it launch, and they want to see it come here. ”

- Dave Anderson

“ I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened. ”

- Amy Grant

“ The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality. ”

- Mark Twain
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