Past Quotes

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

It’s not worth crying over spilt milk.

Many a woman has a past, but I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

Let bygones be bygones.

The future is usually just like the past – right up to the moment when it isn’t.

The water that is past cannot make the mill go.

Things said or done long years ago, Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

There is nothing new under the sun.