(Illustration from The
Epoch Times)
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory
fails.
-Donna Roberts
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
-Clifton
Fadiman
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
-Doug
Larson
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in
nothing else is he poor.
-Alexander Smith
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely
unhappen.
-Edward de Bono
As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain
things never happened.
-Robert Brault
Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the
past...
-Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of
outlived sorrow.
-George Eliot
Death is that state in which one exists only in the memory of others.
Which is why it is not an end.
(from 'Skin of Evil,' Star Trek: The
Next Generation)
-Hannah Louise Shearer
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from
the door.
-Saul Bellow
Everyone complains of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
-Francois
de la Rochefoucauld
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
-J.M.
Barrie
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
-Ingrid Bergman
He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of
lying.
-Michel de Montaigne
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
-Baltasar Gracián
I have a photographic memory, but my mind's out of film.
-Unattributed
I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
-Albert
Einstein
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory
of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of
absolute superfluity.
-Oscar Wilde
If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.
-Joseph Brodsky
If you want to test your memory, try to remember what you were worrying
about one year ago today.
-E. Joseph Cossman
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
-Tennessee Williams
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.
-Joseph
Conrad
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the
memory of the commercial classes.
-Oscar Wilde
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
-Lewis Carroll
Liars ought to have good memories.
-Algernon Sidney
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because
of darkness.
-Gene Fowler
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see
how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for
getting out of a lot of stuff.
-Erma Bombeck
Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
-H.P.
Lovecraft
Memory can glean, but never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the
perfume of flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
-Henry
Ward Beecher
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never know what small
pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
-Pierce
Harris
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
-Austin
O'Malley
Memory is a great betrayer.
-Anaïs Nin
Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the
brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
-Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Memory is better than a video because it's free and it doesn't work very
well.
-David Owen
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the
keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
-Rollo
May
Memory is the editor of one's sense of life.
-Elizabeth Bowen
Memory is the one paradise out of which we cannot be driven.
-Sacha
Guitry
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories- and telling
other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
-Alice
Munro
My memory of you is better than you.
-Chuck Lorre
Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good
ones.
-Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
-Franklin
P. Adams
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
-John
Kenneth Galbraith
O Memory! thou fond deceiver.
-Oliver Goldsmith
One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
-Phyllis
Rose
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
-Napoleon
Bonaparte
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life
to those who no longer exist.
-Guy de Maupassant
Own only what you can carry with you: know language, know countries,
know people, let your memory be your travel bag.
-Aleksandr
Solzhnitsyn
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is
outside of time, it's Eternity.
-Paulo Coelho
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep
in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
-J.R.R.
Tolkien
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
-Gustave
Flaubert
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings
have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing
trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts
of infamy as easily as their parents' birth.
-Stephen Vizinczey
Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever
happen to one again.
-Willa Cather
Speak for the ear and write for the memory.
-Joseph Joubert
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the
declining sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
-Washington
Irving
The advantage of a bad memory is that, several times over, one enjoys
the same good things for the first time.
-Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for
jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most
brilliant.
-Salvador Dali
The memory of the American public is about six weeks.
-F. Lee
Bailey
The one who relies on authority during a discussion does not use his
mind but his memory.
-Leonardo da Vinci
The traditional media has the attention span and historical memory of an
erection.
-Joseph Romm
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
-Samuel Johnson
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
-Henry
Wheeler Shaw
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let
well enough alone.
-Jules Ellinger
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some
temptation we resisted.
-James Branch Cabell
There's a brief moment when you first wake up where you have no
memories, a blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness, but it doesn't last
long and you remember exactly where you are and what you are trying to
forget.
-Carrie Bradshaw
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have
raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
-William
Hazlitt
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
-William Gibson
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
-Florence
King
Universal History is ... not a burden on the memory but an illumination
of the soul.
-John Dalberg-Acton
Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which
nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.
-Napoleon
Bonaparte
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties,
mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
-W.
Somerset Maugham
When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
-Bill
Clinton
Why should we have enough memory to retain even the smallest details of
what happened to us, while we do not have enough to remember how many
times we have told them to the same person?
-Francois de la
Rochefoucauld
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
-Stanislaw
J. Lec
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