Past Quotes - Page 2
What is past is prologue.
- William Shakespeare
The past is but the past of a beginning.
- H. G. Wells
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
- Anonymous
I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
- Colin Powell
Study the past if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
- Lord Byron
Consider the past and you shall know the future.
- Chinese Proverb
Remembering the past gives power to the present.
- Anonymous
O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
- William Shakespeare
The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
- Mark Twain
Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.
- Melanie Gustafson
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
- Anonymous
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.
- Mark Twain
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
- A. Whitney Brown
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
- Don Rickles
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
- Oscar Wilde
It is one thing putting away the past, and quite another to tape its mouth shut.
- Liam Lacey
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
- Euripides
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.
- Eugene O’Neill
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
- Jack Dempsey
I look back on my life like a good day’s work; it was done and I am satisfied with it.
- Anna Mary Robertson Moses
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past,controls the future.
- George Orwell
Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.
- Tony Campolo
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
- Henri Bergson
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
- Spiro T. Agnew
The burden of the past pains more than the bullet of a gun; remove the past and a million men will be made happy.
- Anonymous
You either stuck in the past and wonder or move on and surrender..
We are tomorrow’s past.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Even God cannot change the past.
- Agathon
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
- Vladimir Nabokov
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
- John F. Kennedy
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
- Joseph Joubert


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