The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
As quoted in Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 22.
Decade unclear
Variant: Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Amelia Earhart book Last Flight
Source: Last Flight (1937), p. 70
Context: In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Dick Cheney (1941) American politician and businessman
[In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize Luncheon http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060619-10.html, June 19, 2006 <br class="br">2000s, 2006
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
September 1, 2005. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/01/BL2005090100915.html <br class="br">2000s, 2005
“I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful.”
Martin Sheen (1940) American actor
2000s, Progressive magazine interview (2003)
Context: If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is.
“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
As quoted in Isms (2006) by Gregory Bergman, p. 105
Attributed
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
Amelia Earhart book Last Flight
Source: Last Flight (1937), p. 50
“The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.”
Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic
(8 July 1987) Reported in Leopoldo Duran, Graham Greene: An intimate portrait by his closest friend and confidant, translated by Euan Cameron. HarperCollins, 1994, p. 97
“The voyage appeared short, for I had nothing to anticipate.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
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