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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Uncertainty |
| Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernæ crastina summæ Tempora di superi? Who knows whether the gods will add to-morrow to the present hour? Horace—Carmina. IV. 7. 17. | 1 |
| Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo: Et subito casu, quæ valuere, ruunt. All human things hang on a slender thread: the strongest fall with a sudden crash. Ovid—Epistolæ Ex Ponto. IV. 3. 35. | 2 |
| Nothing is but what is not. Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 141. | 3 |
| This I ever held worse than all certitude, To know not what the worst ahead might be. Swinburne—Marino Faliero. Act V. | 4 |
| Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur. When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. Terrence—Andria. I. 5. 32. | 5 |
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