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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Time is my greatest enemy.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.

The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.