| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
| Bible | And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? |
| Bible | And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. |
| Bible | Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? |
| David Lloyd George | 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. |
| Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus | 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 spirit. |
| Horace Walpole | Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. |
| Theodore Hook | The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
| Thomas Campbell | The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. |
| Homer | 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. |
| James Russell Lowell | My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow, Don't never prophesy--onless ye know. |
| James Russell Lowell | It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours. |
| John Milton | No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. |
| John Milton | Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ancestral voices prophesying war. |
| William Shakespeare | O my prophetic soul! My uncle? |
| William Shakespeare | There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, 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. |
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