War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain and that is to increase taxes.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable solutions are not.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying even if by chance they are later proved right.'