top of page
"Look back, and smile on perils past."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Past quotes

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."

"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."

"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
Past,

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."

"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate."
Explore more quotes by Walter Scott

"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."

"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."

"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
bottom of page