top of page

"I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford."

Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician

8

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford."

Exlpore more Past quotes

"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."

Mick Jagger, English Musician

Past, Regret, Want

"The past is a shadow; the present is real."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Mindfulness

"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Mindfulness

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Letting Go

"Your past does not define you, your present does."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Transformation

"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Past, Memory, Attraction, Reflection

"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."

Doris Kearns Goodwin, American Historian

"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."

Henry Villard, American Journalist

"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."

Joe Adcock, American Athlete

Explore more quotes by Godfrey Harold Hardy

"I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford."

"I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction."

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."

"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

bottom of page