Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1296 |
| AUTHOR: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| QUOTATION: | Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | “What’s past is prologue” is carved on the National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. |
| SUBJECTS: | Past and future |