You May Also Like / View all maxioms
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
[Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
[Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
