Memory Quotes

76 quotations about Memory
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul Richter · Memory
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
Antoine Rivarol · Memory
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
Will Rogers · Memory
You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
Will Rogers · Memory
Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.
Helen Hoover Santmyer · Memory
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
Chief Seattle · Memory
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Seneca · Memory
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Cray Seymore · Memory
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw · Memory
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan · Memory
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Alexander Smith · Memory
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Italo Svevo · Memory
Observation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan Swift · Memory
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington · Memory
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant · Memory
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Henry David Thoreau · Memory
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Martin Tupper · Memory
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Mark Twain · Memory
If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain · Memory
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Source Unknown · Memory
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
Source Unknown · Memory
People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.
Source Unknown · Memory
Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.
Source Unknown · Memory
Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
Virgil · Memory
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde · Memory

Authors on Memory

Aeschylus Aristotle Maurice Baring Ellen Barkin Garrett Bartley James Branch Cabell Bumper Sticker Luis Bunuel Willa Cather Alexander Chase Chinese Proverb Marcus T. Cicero Joseph Conrad Eliza Cook Noel Coward Dante Alighieri Charles Dickens Joan Didion Clifton Fadiman Enrico Fermi