Subject: Time » Past (Page 2)

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

(1973 – ) American comedian

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

(1937 – 2000) science fiction author

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

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

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

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

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

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

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

… 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

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

(1899 – 1995) humorist

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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

When I was a Republican, Saddam Hussein was our ally, George Bush owned a mediocre baseball team, Enron was a respected energy company and Michael Jackson was still black.

(1950 – ) Greek American author, columnist & website co-founder

I don’t like to look back in retrospect.

professional football player

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

There’s no future in time travel.

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

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

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