Quotes
Quotes about Memory
It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
The memory of the just is blessed.
The truth is fabled by the daughters of memory
He dredged memory, found naught.
You can't love the dead. All you love is the memory ...
Memory as a human faculty is subject to human limitation and we are condemned to invent so much of the past
A bad conscience has a very good memory.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was givenâall these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar An old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, O most delicious! How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume! The memory of a good deed lives.
