quotes about the past and future

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving



Who covets more, is evermore a slave. ~Robert Herrick



Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses. ~Ira Wallach



Hatred is one long wait. ~Rene Maran



The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel. ~Robert Morley, 1965



Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. ~Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859



No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ~H.L. Mencken



You couldn't fool your own mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine! ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



Ideas have become far more important to us than action - ideas so cleverly expressed in books by the intellectuals in every field. The more cunning, the more subtle, those ideas are the more we worship them and the books that contain them. We are those books, we are those ideas, so heavily conditioned are we by them. We are forever discussing ideas and ideals and dialectically offering opinions. Every religion has its dogma, its formula, its own scaffold to reach the gods, and when inquiring into the beginning of thought we are questioning the importance of this whole edifice of ideas. We have separated ideas from action because ideas are always of the past and action is always the present - that is, living is always the present. We are afraid of living and therefore the past, as ideas, has become so important to us. ~J. Krishnamurti Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick. Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso. ~Spanish Proverb



Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. ~Jim Davis



Princess Edane... heard a voice singing on a May Eve like this, and followed half awake and half asleep, until she came into the Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. ~William Butler Yeats, "The Land of Heart's Desire," 1894



Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation. ~John Haynes Holmes



It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. ~Margaret Bonnano



Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not. ~Author Unknown



Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere



Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished. ~Clifford Stoll



A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers. ~Helen Lawrenson



If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce



In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960