Past Quotes

Fairfield osborne - we do not live to extenuate the miseries of the...
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
George steine - each new historical era mirrors itself in the...
Danger past, God forgotten.
Scottish Prove
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge
Forget the past and live the present hour.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.
La Bruyere
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
I think we agree, the past is over.
George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
Michael cibenko - one problem with gazing too frequently into the...
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
John Updike
He who controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.
Saturday Review
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andr Maurois
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
The past is certain, the future obscure.
Thales
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
La Rochefoucauld
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb Caen
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie".
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Pete
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth