A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its
satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.
-John
Steinbeck
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory
fails.
-Donna Roberts
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
-Clifton
Fadiman
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
-Doug
Larson
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness. But after
that he begins to bunch them.
-H.L. Mencken
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in
nothing else is he poor.
-Alexander Smith
A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote
ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride
by remote descendants.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only
have to remember it.
-George Burns
Can anyone remember when times were not hard, and money not scarce?
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Death is that state in which one exists only in the memory of others.
Which is why it is not an end. (from "Skin of Evil," Star Trek: The Next
Generation)
-Hannah Louise Shearer
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from
the door.
-Saul Bellow
Everyone complains of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
-Francois
de la Rochefoucauld
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
-James
M. Barrie
Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the
United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.
-Gore
Vidal
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
-Oscar
Levant
History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells "Can't
you remember anything I told you?" and lets fly with a club.
-Unattributed
I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations
beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
-Dorothy
Parker
I never throw anything away, which is irrelevant because I can never
remember where I put anything.
-Kevin G. Barkes
I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
-Oscar
Levant
I've had so many wives, I can't remember all their names. To keep it
simple, I just called them all "Plaintiff."
-Lewis
Grizzard
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory
of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of
absolute superfluity.
-Oscar Wilde
If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.
-Joseph Brodsky
If you can remember the Sixties, you weren't really there.
-Paul
Kantner
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is
to remember that he once was happy.
-Anicius Manlius Severinus
Boethius
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
-Tennessee Williams
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.
-Joseph
Conrad
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might
remember.
-Eugene McCarthy
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my
reasons for them!
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It's not that men can keep secrets. They just don't remember they know
any.
-Leo Gallagher
Liars ought to have good memories.
-Algernon Sidney
Life is not what one has lived, but what one remembers and how one
chooses to tell it.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember
more than I have seen.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
-Alphonse de
Lamartine
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see
how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for
getting out of a lot of stuff.
-Erma Bombeck
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never know what small
pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
-Pierce
Harris
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
-Austin
O'Malley
Memory is a great betrayer.
-Anais Nin
Memory is better than a video because it's free and it doesn't work very
well.
-David Owen
Memory is the editor of one's sense of life.
-Elizabeth Bowen
My memory of you is better than you.
-Chuck Lorre
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
Dworken
Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
-Benjamin
Disraeli
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.
For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory
of ancient things of a superior age?
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
-Robert
Benchley
One day you'll find that these high school years will be a tiny, distant
memory. The scars, of course, are yours to keep forever.
-Tom
Batiuk
One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
-Phyllis
Rose
Only the vanquished remember history.
-Marshall McLuhan
The advantage of a bad memory is that, several times over, one enjoys
the same good things for the first time.
-Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche
The great majority of people are only remembered when something for
which they are responsible goes wrong.
-Lord Slim
The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the
inability to remember,
-Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself
you remember, or pretend you remember.
-Harold Pinter
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
-Charles
Kuralt
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily
remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments,
surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has
even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
-Eric
Hoffer
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
-Samuel Johnson
There are only three things worth remembering: you social security
number, the formula for your hair dye and how many hours you were in
labor with your children.
-Erma Bombeck
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let
well enough alone.
-Jules Ellinger
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember
it, but it's good.
-Stephen Colbert
There's something profoundly sad about being able to remember the exact
moment you were last happy.
-Olivia Ramsey
There's two types of old people. There's the old people that remember
what sex was like, and then there's the old people that pretend that it
didn't exist.
-Jay Black
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George
Santayana
Those who cannot remember the past are invited to come over to my place.
-John
Alejandro King (The Covert Comic)
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
-William Gibson
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
-Florence
King
We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never
really happened to us.
-Eric Hoffer
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
-Cesare Pavese
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties,
mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
-W.
Somerset Maugham
What sinners remember best is that they were happy while sinning.
-C.S.
Lewis
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old
man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his
life, most of which had never happened.
-Winston Churchill
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or
not.
-Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
-Bill
Clinton
When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought,
heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable,
remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
-Alan
Moore
Why should we have enough memory to retain even the smallest details of
what happened to us, while we do not have enough to remember how many
times we have told them to the same person?
-Francois de la
Rochefoucauld
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I
wish I could forget.
-William S. Burroughs
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
-Stanislaw
J. Lec
Your word can never be as good as your bond because your memory can
never be as trustworthy as your honor.
-George Bernard Shaw
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