In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. – Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. – Franklin Pierce Adams

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. – Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic

What is the charm that makes old things so sweet? – Sarah Doudney, “Between the Lights,” c.1875