Memory Quotes
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.Abraham Lincoln
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.Leonardo da Vinci
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.Friedrich Nietzsche
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.Ethel Barrymore
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.Bill Beattie
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.Benjamin Franklin
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
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
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
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
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.Georges Duhamel
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
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
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.Leonardo DaVinci
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.Georges Duhamel
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.Henry David Thoreau
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.Elie Wiesel
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.John Lancaster Spalding
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - Never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?C. S. Lewis
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.Lester J. Pourciau
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P. D. James
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.Vladimir Nabokov
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
