Memory Quotes
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.Pierce Harris
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
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P. D. James
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.Richard Whately
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.Rotarian
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.Michel de Montaigne
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.Unknown
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
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
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
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
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.Rita Mae Brown
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.Author Unknown
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
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
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.Friedrich Nietzsche
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)
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
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.Richard Milhous Nixon
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.Lester J. Pourciau
