You May Also Like / View all maxioms
The next day is never so good as the day before.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
read more
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.]
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with read more
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
read more
John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonny brow was brent.
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
read more
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."
