The 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 TwainThere are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
Nicholas SparksI hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
ConfuciusA 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 PaveseIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan PoeFirst you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up, and finally you forget to pull it down.
George BurnsNothing 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 ParkerNothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de MontaigneCreditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin FranklinI'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 DaliThe true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel JohnsonNothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth GalbraithI've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis StevensonDon'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 HolmesAs 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 FullerYesterday'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 SchwarzeneggerJoy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still.
Lord ByronThe memory of joy is no longer joy, the memory of pain is pain still.
Lord ByronEach day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. SwindollTake care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Bob DylanThe two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel JohnsonThere is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
AeschylusWe only labor to stuff the memory and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de MontaigneWhen I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark TwainMemory... 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 dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.
Rabindranath TagoreIt takes huge effort to free yourself from memory.
Paulo CoelhoMemory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMemory is the mother of all wisdom.
AeschylusWhat 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 MullerObservation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan SwiftParents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory, children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George SantayanaWhenever I think of the past it brings back so many memories.
Steven WrightEvery 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 CobainThere is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us with or without repentance.
Gilbert ParkerMy 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 FlaubertLet the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion, pass through without affecting your equanimity.
Sai BabaAlas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David ThoreauCato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
Francis BaconMy eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
John WoodenHe who has gone so we but cherish his memory, abides with us more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyThus 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. NixonI 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. BushThe happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel JohnsonThe first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But when we turn further and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise then all begins to grow clear and legible.
Max MullerNo memory of having starred atones for later, disregard or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert FrostWhat 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 ByronFor my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis BaconThe 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