It is easy to be wise after the event.
—Common Proverb
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
—Bob Newhart (1929–2024) American Comedian, Actor
Literature is analysis after the event.
—Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British Novelist, Poet
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
—Daniel Goleman (b.1946) American Psychologist, Author, Science Journalist
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French Philosopher, Psychoanalyst, Poet
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events.
—Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American Poet, Essayist
Time is a river of passing events—a rushing torrent.
—Greek Proverb
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, and in today already walks tomorrow.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
—Edward Hoagland (b.1932) American Essayist, Novelist
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
—Andre Breton (1896–1966) French Poet, Essayist, Critic
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
—William Cowper (1731–1800) English Anglican Poet, Hymn writer
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
—Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian Psychiatrist
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events.—He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
—Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American Novelist Essayist
Consult duty, not events.
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) English Writer, Poet
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
—Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet
Old friends are the great blessings of one’s later years. Half a word conveys one’s meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
—Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) English Novelist, Short Story Writer, Dramatist
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
—Livy (Titus Livius) (59 BCE–17 CE) Roman Historian
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
Events tend to recur in cycles…
—W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American Self-help Guru, Entrepreneur
A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth—either epileptic or dead.
—Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French Sociologist, Philosopher
Events follow one another like the days of the week.
—African Proverb
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
—Anatole France (1844–1924) French Novelist
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