Past Quotes

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

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Dan McKinnon

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Masterlinck

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.

La Rochefoucauld

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

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long

The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.

Israel Zangwill

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferbe

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

Frederick Chiluba

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Harry S Truman

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Elizabeth II