Happenings Quote by Marcus Aurelius

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it…

— Pliny the Elder

Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the…

— Agnes Repplier

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

— Sophocles

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

— Faith Popcorn

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

— Peter Kreeft

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

— George Eliot

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or…

— Marcus Aurelius

We will be able to travel backward or forward in time and see what has been and what is going to be, as well…

— David Berg

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

— Ibn Khaldun

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment…

— Winston Churchill