Mark Twain Quotes About Past

• What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Firsts, Good Times

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.238, Courier Corporation

• India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Past, Men

• The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  Mark Twain

  Past, History, Doe

• In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Men, Land

• For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Future, Past

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

  Mark Twain

  Past, History, Facts

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.349, Courier Corporation

• I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Fate, Past

• It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Death, Past

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1257, GENERAL PRESS

• The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Race, Interesting

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.48, BIG BYTE BOOKS

• Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Moments, Pondering

• Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Past, Years

• It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Struggle, Past

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1257, GENERAL PRESS

• You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Years, Numbers

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4122, Delphi Classics

• If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

  Mark Twain

  Attitude, Past, Errors

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