Memory Quotes
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.Unknown
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Memory 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 Fulle
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.La Rochefoucauld
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.George Santayana
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.Maurice Baring
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.Friedrich Nietzsche
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
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
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.Leonardo DaVinci
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation - Rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.Francis Bacon
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
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.James M. Barrie
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.Leonardo da Vinci
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.Lester J. Pourciau
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, Pro Publio Sestio
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.John Lancaster Spalding
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - Never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?C. S. Lewis
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
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.Elbert Hubbard
The 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 Milhous Nixon
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.Henry David Thoreau
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.Antonio Porchia
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.Georges Duhamel
