Subject: Time » Past

It’s not perfect, but to me on balance Right Now is a lot better than the Good Old Days.

(1939 – 2012) Irish writer & speaker

Whatever happened to the good old days when kids was scared to death of their parents?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Dick Clark went to a psychic; she told him, in a previous life, he was Dick Clark.

comedian

Genealogy: An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.

(1910 – 2006) Swedish cartoonist

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

(1937 – 2000) science fiction author

Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find OTHER ways to err.

Good Old Days: A block of time which ended a week before you were hired.

We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do – well, that's Memoirs.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Good Old Days: What people fifty years hence will be calling the present time.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

(1936 – ) novelist, essayist & columnist

I used to do drugs; I still do, but I used to, too.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

The only advantage to living in the past is that the rents are much cheaper!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Depression: A period during which we have to get along without the things our grandparents never dreamed of.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

The only advantage to living in the past is that the rents are much cheaper!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.