Subject: Time » Past (Page 2)

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

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

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

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

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

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

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

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

(1937 – 2000) science fiction author

… since God's dog was a pup

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

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

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

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

There’s no future in time travel.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

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

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

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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