Prophecy Quotes
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Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Horace Walpole, letter to Thomas Walpole (9 February 1785) 
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More Prophecy Quotes
Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.
— Giannina Braschi, in " United States of Banana" (2011)
You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all , we perform the miracles .
— Kate Bush, in "Them Heavy People" on The Kick Inside (1978)
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so."
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XIV, Stanza 50
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo, in West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (No.2), 294 U.S. 79, 82, (1935)
Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
— Charles de Lint, in "Paperjack" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 396
Prophets don't know everything!
— Jim Henson and David Odell, in The Dark Crystal (1982)
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.
— Jesus, in Matthew, XIII. 57
The Future … is like a puzzle with missing pieces difficult to read, and never, NEVER, what you think.
— Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, in lines for "Rumpelstiltskin" in Manhattan, episode 2.14 of Once Upon a Time (17 February 2013)
The Future is a puzzle, with many pieces to be sorted. In Time you will learn to separate what can be from what will be.
— Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, in lines for "the Seer" in Manhattan, episode 2.14 of Once Upon a Time (17 February 2013)
When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
— Nostradamus, in The Prophecies (1555), Q 48
O my prophetic soul! My uncle!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 5, line 40
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd, The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act III, scene 1, line 80
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
lord byron— Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto II, Stanza 20
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world a sacred gift to man.
thomas campbell— Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, Part I, line 43
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
We know in part, and we prophesy in part.
— I Corinthians, XIII. 9 (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation … confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.
— Erasmus, Praise of Folly (Old translation)
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
— Fitz-Greene Halleck, Marco Bozzaris
Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs Of coming mischief is thy great delight, Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass.
— Homer, The Iliad, Book I, line 138, Bryant's translation
A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore to shore, With sluices made to drown the French, if e'er they would come over, Sir, Has long been talk'd of, till at length 'tis thought a monstrous bore.
— Theodore Hook, Bubbles of 1825, in John Bull (1825)
This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world … this great hour which rings in a new era … and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.
— David Lloyd George, speech at Guildhall after the signing of the Armistice (11 November 1918)
No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
john milton— John Milton, Hymn on Christ's Nativity, line 173
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
john milton— John Milton, Il Penseroso (1631), line 173
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
— Zechariah. I. 5 (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Neither can live while the other survives...
J. K. Rowling— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 37, prophecy about the 'Chosen One' and Voldemort by Sybill Trelawney (2003).
