The future is usually just like the past – right up to the moment when it isn’t.
Past Quotes
The water that is past cannot make the mill go.
We must disenthrall ourselves from the past. Otherwise it becomes a barrier to progress.
It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future or past to the back.
One point has already been proved: Everything that happened once can happen again.
Men ever praise the olden time, and find fault with the present, though often without reason… Having grown old, they also laud all they remember to have seen in their youth. Their opinion is generally erroneous… We never know the whole truth about the past.
Don’t brood on what’s past, but never forget it either.
These are the good old days. Just you wait and see.
In all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same humors, and the same as they always were. So it is an easy thing for whoever examines past things to foresee future (things) in each republic and to take those remedies that were used by the ancients, or not finding […]
Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.
