W. H. Auden Quotes

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

If you do not heed my advice, you will regret it, but it will be too late.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.

There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

The past is only the future with the lights on

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.