Past Quotes

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

Leonard L. Levinson

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

Ursala Lequin

This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.

Agathon

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

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

Arthur Wing Pinero

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.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Jeseph Joubert

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

Maurice Masterlinck