If people only had as good foresight as they have hindsight, how easy it would be!" "Look here, Grady," said Godfrey, more kindly, "I haven't anything against you personally, and I admit that it was foolish of me to stand there talking to Crochard and never suspect who he was.

647. unpunctual &c (late) 133; too late for; premature &c (early) 132; too soon for; wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty-twenty hindsight.

twenty-twenty hindsight

And yet, as hindsight makes our vision clearer than foresight, it is impossible to say definitely what our opinions would have been under other conditions, and there can, at any rate, be no question of the absolute sincerity of the man who, from his youth up, had placed the welfare of his beloved country above every other consideration except his duty to his God.

I think we will be known among those who will hereafter visit this marvelous region as "The Temperance Party," though some of our number who lacked the foresight to provide, before leaving Helena, a needed remedy for snake bites, have not lacked the hindsight required in using it.

" Having shown a deplorable lack of foresight, Mr. Wylie determined to make up for it by an ample display of hindsight.

Rather than being downright manipulative, in hindsight I would describe the management style as slightly neurotic, characteristically protecting its own interests.

The name seems easy in hindsight, but requires considerable foresight and thinking to arrive at.

Schenley Swallows sing: An ounce of foresight is worth a pound of hindsight.

Fantastic interim; a hindsight history of American manners, morals and mistakes between Versailles and Pearl Harbor.

Schenley Swallows sing: An ounce of foresight is worth a pound of hindsight.

Fantastic interim; a hindsight history of American manners, morals and mistakes between Versailles and Pearl Harbor.

If my foresight had been half so good as my hindsight, I would never have left W, but the tempter came in the form of an offer of a much larger salary from N, and I foolishly accepted.