YESTERDAY

Related Subjects: History, Memory, Past

1. How long ago it may seem since yesterday!—J. M. BARRIE, Sentimental Tommy
   

2. He seems
   To have seen better days, as who has not
   Who has seen yesterday?—BYRON, Werner
   

3. The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.—JEAN COCTEAU, A Call to Order
   

4. These poor Might-Have-Beens,
   These fatuous, ineffectual Yesterdays!—W. E. HENLEY, To James McNeill Whistler
   

5. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
   The way to dusty death.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

6. O, call back yesterday, bid time return!—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

7. Yesterday will not be called again.—JOHN SKELTON, Magnyfycence
   

8. Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile
   Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly.—EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts