Memory Quotes
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.Leo Buscaglia
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.Author Unknown
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.James Carroll
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.Michel de Montaigne
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.Thomas Fulle
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.Unknown
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.James M. Barrie
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.Edward de Bono
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.Tryon Edwards
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.Rotarian
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.Arthur Schopenhaue
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation - Rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.Elbert Hubbard
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.Sir V Pritchett
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.Sandra
God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.J. M. Barrie
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.Francis Bacon
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.T. S. Eliot
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.Georges Duhamel
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.Jerome K. Jerome
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.Abrahm Lincoln
