Memory Quotes

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

George Dennison Prentice

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitze

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

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

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Georges Duhamel

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson

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

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but 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, O Magazine, October 2002

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