Memory Quotes
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.Leonardo da Vinci
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
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.Author Unknown
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.Elie Wiesel
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
A liar should have a good memory.Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.John Kenneth Galbraith
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.Maurice Baring
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.Leonardo DaVinci
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
God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.J. M. Barrie
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
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.Elbert Hubbard
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
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.Marcel Proust
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 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
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
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
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
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 lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.Vladimir Nabokov
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
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.Edward de Bono
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
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
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P. D. James
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
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
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.Michel de Montaigne
