Subject: Time » Past

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

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

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

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce – instantly.

(1973 – ) American comedian

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

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

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

(1937 – 2000) science fiction author

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

Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised; and there's a reason – all of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

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

I've got my faults, but living in the past isn't one of them; there's no future in it.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

You always think another time would have been ideal for you; the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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 like to reminisce with people I don’t know… granted, it takes longer.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I don’t like to look back in retrospect.

professional football player

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

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

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

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

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer