Subject: Time » Past

I don’t like to look back in retrospect.

professional football player

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

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

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

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

(1937 – 2000) science fiction 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

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

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

He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.

(1910 – 2006) Swedish cartoonist

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

Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised; and there's a reason – all of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

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