Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences. — John Irving Copy Share Image
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve. — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought,… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I have always had people to propound how essential it is to dream, but never do they tell what you should do… — Mansi Soni Copy Share Image
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Though the house itself was a fortress, still, Isaac Penn had thought to make sure that anyone who did manage to break… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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