Past - Quotes and Proverbs

Remember the good old times? Here is a collection of proverbs and quotes about the past.

Hunebed - Anvient burial place — The past is history.

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All the past died yesterday; the future is born today.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

Before Elvis, there was nothing.

John Lennon

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

Will Rogers

Forget the past. What else is there to forget?

Minkukel

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

Drew Barrymore

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Oscar Wilde

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Pete Seeger

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

Learn about the future by looking at the past.

Let bygones be bygones.

Forgive and forget things that happened in the past.

Let's bury the hatchet
Wipe out the past
Make love together
Stay on the path

The Rolling Stones
Source: Mixed Emotions

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Sir Walter Scott

Remember the wisdom out of the old days.

William Butler Yeats

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Lesley P. Hartley

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Mick Jagger

The past is always judged by the present.

Neith Boyce

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner

The past is never where you think you left it.

Katherine Anne Porter

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Rick Warren

We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

(unknown author)

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

Steven Wright

You shouldn't live in the past, but you shouldn't erase it either.

(unknown author)

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