Subject: Time » Past

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

American comedian

I don’t like to look back in retrospect.

professional football player

Whatever happened to the good old days when kids was scared to death of their parents?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

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

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

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

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

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

There’s no future in time travel.

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

(1916 – 1997) newspaper journalist

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

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

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back.

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

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

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

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

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

(1899 – 1995) humorist

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

… since God's dog was a pup

Genealogy: An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist