Memory Quotes

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

I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.

Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

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

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

George Dennison Prentice

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

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Rotarian

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

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

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.

T. S. Eliot