<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Past - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is past is prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is past is prologue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move on!It's just a chapter in the past! But don't close the book,just turn the page.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Move on!It's just a chapter in the past! But don't close the book,just turn the page....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the past if you would divine the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the past if you would divine the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next day is never so good as the day before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next day is never so good as the day before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45697]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45680]]></link><description><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.  [Lat., Prisca ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.  [Lat., Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers   Will ne'er make grow againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45675]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45677]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee soon the truth,   "There are no birds in last year's nest."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45666]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your bonny brow was brent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of prophets of the future is the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of prophets of the future is the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime:  When the wise Wanderer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45670]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime:  When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate,   Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours away!    Languidly the Autumn wind     Stirs the forest leaves,      From the field the reapers sing       Binding up their sheaves:        And a proverb haunts my mind         As a spell is cast,          "The mill cannot grind           With the water that is past."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No traces left of all the busy scene, But that remembrances says: The things have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45661]]></link><description><![CDATA[No traces left of all the busy scene, But that remembrances says: The things have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45662]]></link><description><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unrelenting past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unrelenting past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45655]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45655</guid></item></channel></rss>