Memory Quotes
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
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
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.Elie Wiesel
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.Abrahm Lincoln
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
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
The palest ink is better than the best memory.Chinese Prove
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.La Rochefoucauld
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
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
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
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.Vladimir Nabokov
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.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
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)
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
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
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 tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.Theodore Harold White
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.Leonardo da Vinci
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.Tryon Edwards
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
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
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
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.Benjamin Franklin
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
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.Edward de Bono
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.Georges Duhamel
