Subject: Time » Past (Page 2)

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

We’ve been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

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.

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

… since God's dog was a pup

I admit that I live in the past, but only because housing is so much cheaper.

American comedian

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

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

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

(1973 – ) American comedian

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

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

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

(1937 – 2000) science fiction author

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

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

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

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer

I don’t like to look back in retrospect.

professional football player

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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