UNCERTAINTY

Related Subjects: Confidence, Doubt, Security, Surety, Suspense

1. What is more unwise than to mistake uncertainty for certainty, falsehood for truth?—CICERO, De Senectute

2. Uncertain ways unsaf est are,
   And doubt a greater mischief than despair.—SIR JOHN DENHAM, Cooper's Hill
   

3. Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.—FRANKLIN, Letter to M. Leroy
   

4. He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler
   

5. All between the cradle and the coffin is uncertain.—Proverb