Past Quotes
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.Sophocles
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
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
You can never plan the future by the past.Edmund Burke
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
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
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
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about... things that are past, it is needless to blame.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.Unknown
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.Rene Descartes
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
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.Charles E. Jefferson
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.Harry S Truman
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
Look back, and smile on perils past.Sir Walter Scott
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
He who controls the past controls the future.George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
The past is certain, the future obscure.Thales
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.Herb Brody
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.William Wordsworth
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
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
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.Michael Cibenko
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.Gerald Jampolsky
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.Mark White
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
