The Past
See also: Time
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future André Gide
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either Thomas H. Raddall
Live today, forget the past Greek proverb
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past Madame Chiang Kai-shek
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be Lillian Hellman
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been John Greenleaf Whittier
Hindsight is always 20/20 Billy Wilder
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there Leslie Poles Hartley
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane Doug Larson
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance George Bernard Shaw
Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big Audrey Snead
The past is the tomorrow that got away Leonard L. Levinson
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are George Eliot
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear William Shakespeare
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates
Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come Lucy Larcom
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday John Wayne
The past is the best prophet of the future Lord Byron
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience Robert Packwood
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past Patrick Henry
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy Kahlil Gibran
The past is never dead--it is not even past William Faulkner
The past is the best way to suppose what may come Lord Halifax
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past Percy Bysshe Shelley
The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow Bernie Wiebe
The Golden Age was never the present Age Thomas Fuller
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it George Santayana
Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last Miguel de Cervantes
Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it. anonymous
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. Søren Kierkegaard
The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now Artie Shaw
The past is that which we possess fully and in whole Isidor Eliashev
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood Maurice Maeterlinck
The past is our very being David Ben-Gurion
The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it Madame de Stael
The "good old times"--all times, when old, are good Lord Byron
The past not merely is not fugitve, is remains present Marcel Proust
Only sick music makes money today Friedrich Nietzsche (in 1888)
The past is one evil less and one memory more Elbert Hubbard
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today Brendan Francis
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past." Anton Chekhov
I look back on my life like a good day's work; it is done and I am satisfied with it Grandma Moses
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future Oscar Wilde
Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest Chi K'ang
No past is ever dead for us, but only sleeping, love Helen Hunt Jackson
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover Susan Coolidge
Our life is like some vast lake that is slowly filling with the stream of our years. As the waters creep surely upward the landmarks of the past are one by one submerged. But there shall always be memory to lift its head above the tide until the lake overflowing. Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson
That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present Sydney Smith
Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you. Satchel Paige
Never let yesterday use up today Richard H. Nelson