The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the read more

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my read more

Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

You have to know the past to understand the present.