Fear is the mother of foresight.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

Topics: Fear Quotes, Foresight Quotes

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men...

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men...

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that...

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that...

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Had other aims than my delight.

Had other aims than my delight.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I...

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I...

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving...

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving...