Past Quotes

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The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Arabian prove - four things come not back - - the spoken word,...
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Mikhail gorbachev, (1988) - it would be naive to think that the problems...
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
La Rochefoucauld
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
Unknown
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
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie".
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.
Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about... things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
John Milton
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
Unknown
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.
Fairfield Osborne
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.
Gladys Tabe
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
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.
Sir Winston Churchill
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Cicero
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
William Wordsworth
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
John Sladek
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne W Dye
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert Green Ingersoll
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky