Quotes
Quotes about Past
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. -Donald Trump.
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Thou unrelenting past.
The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past."
Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
