Past Quotes
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.L. Thomas Holdcroft
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
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 superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.Herb Caen
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
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
He who controls the past controls the future.George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.James Barrett Scotty Reston
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.Maurice Masterlinck
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.Unknown
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.R. D. Laing
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
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.Israel Zangwill
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.Sir Winston Churchill
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.Curt Simmons
