Forethought Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Forethought


In life, as in chess, forethought wins. Charles Buxton.	1
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. Napoleon I.	2
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. Confucius.	3
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come. St. Augustine.	4
Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny. Schiller.	5
To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool. Cecil.	6
If I foreknew, foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, which had no less proved certain unforeknown. Milton.	7
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast. Coleridge.	8