Age Quote by Jared Diamond

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our…

— Jon Meacham

Feeling that the past was a golden age of seamless perfection a time of infinite happiness is not an accurate assessment of reality. Comparing…

— Melchor Lim

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

— Paul Signac

History has shown us that the past lives too long, and the future dies too young.

— Anonymous

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

— Joan Didion

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

— Elbert Hubbard

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

— Mason Cooley

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

— Esther Meynell

The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is…

— Richard Flanagan

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

— Arthur C. Clarke

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero