Quotes of the Week: The Day the World Ended

In honor of the apocalypse scheduled for tomorrow, a few previous prophecies, all gathered from The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations:

"The world will end by a giant flood on February 20th 1524."
- Johanned Stoffler, Tubingen University

"The world will be destroyed by fire on April 3rd 1843."
- William Miller

"The world then to an end will come
In Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-One."
- The Life and Prophecies of Ursula Sontheil (Mother Shipton), 1881 edition

"The world then at an end we'll view
In Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-Two."
- The Life and Prophecies of Ursula Sontheil (Mother Shipton), 1882 edition

"The world then to an end will come
In Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-One."
- The Life and Prophecies of Ursula Sontheil (Mother Shipton), later editions