No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham LincolnIf you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
Haruki MurakamiThe life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIf you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark TwainMemory is the scribe of the soul.
AristotleI hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
ConfuciusNo matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Haruki MurakamiThe timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil GibranOur consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.
Alan WattsA clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
Mark TwainSometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.
Dr. SeussPast and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
Paulo CoelhoA pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
C. S. LewisIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee WilliamsEveryone complains of his memory and nobody complains of his judgment.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMemories, imagination, old sentiments and associations, are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell HolmesI can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George BurnsThe richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare PaveseConflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity and sets us at noting and contriving.
John DeweyA retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert HubbardIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan PoeI heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.
Audrey HepburnNothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMemory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Gilbert ParkerYesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil GibranSome choices we live not only once, but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard BachNothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de MontaigneCreditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin FranklinWhy is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La RochefoucauldI'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'RourkeSweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee WilliamsUnless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel de MontaigneThe difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador DaliDepend upon it, there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan DoyleHope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar GracianThe heart of marriage is memories, and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill CosbyThe true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel JohnsonI've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis StevensonI answer the heroic question "Death where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."
Maya AngelouDon't ever prophesy, for if you prophesy wrong nobody will forget it, and if you prophesy right nobody will remember it.
Josh BillingsMemory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell HolmesTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin FranklinAs a child I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
Will SmithMemory is the treasure house of the mind, wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Thomas FullerMemory 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 FullerHappiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid BergmanNothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre GideA whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
Charles M. SchulzYesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Bob DylanIf it's hard to remember it'll be difficult to forget.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe memory of joy is no longer joy, the memory of pain is pain still.
Lord ByronNothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin Pierce AdamsEach day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. SwindollMemory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert EinsteinTake care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Bob DylanHistory takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude SteinThe two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel JohnsonWe only labor to stuff the memory and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de MontaigneMany a man fails as an original thinker, simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich NietzscheIf the other person injures you, you may forget the injury, but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil GibranWe are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug, and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Marcel ProustTime and memory are true artists, they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John DeweyHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert SchweitzerWhen I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark TwainLife is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
Emile M. CioranMemory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar WildeTo be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
ConfuciusReaders are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.
C. S. LewisToday I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
Dr. SeussRemember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.
Dr. SeussI have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
Bill GatesA mother's happiness is like a beacon lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de BalzacA dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.
Rabindranath TagoreMemory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhat I hear I forget. What I see I remember. What I do I understand.
ConfuciusFor my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches to foreign nations and to the next ages.
Francis BaconNo memory is ever alone, it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Louis L'AmourA memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
Gustave FlaubertOf these years nought remains in memory, but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
Max MullerOcean is more ancient than the mountains and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. LovecraftObservation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan SwiftI have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel CowardWhenever I think of the past it brings back so many memories.
Steven WrightGod gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James Matthew BarrieEvery man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous HuxleyDrugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
Kurt CobainMy first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
Marilyn MansonIt seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
Gustave FlaubertAll vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
David Herbert LawrenceLet the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion, pass through without affecting your equanimity.
Sai BabaA great city whose image dwells in the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest, Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem, and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world Art.
Benjamin DisraeliLeftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Thomas FullerCato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
Francis BaconHe who has gone so we but cherish his memory, abides with us more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyThe first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Mark TwainThus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads and a deep sigh swells the breast which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.
Max MullerThe 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 M. NixonIt is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar WildeI would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.
George W. BushNo memory of having starred atones for later, disregard or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert FrostReligion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma GandhiWhat Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other.
Jane AustenProud of his learning (just enough to quote) He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story Graced with some merit and with more effrontery 'His country's pride ' he came down to
Lord ByronThe only guide to man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield however the fates may play we march always in the ranks of honor.
Winston Churchill