Memory Quotes
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.Timothy Leary
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.James M. Barrie
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
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.Friedrich Nietzsche
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.Unknown
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
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
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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)
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
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
The palest ink is better than the best memory.Chinese Prove
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.Elie Wiesel
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
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
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.Author Unknown
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.George Santayana
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P. D. James
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.Georges Duhamel
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 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
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.Leonardo da Vinci
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.Abrahm Lincoln
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.La Rochefoucauld
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.Leonardo DaVinci
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.Georges Duhamel
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
