If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.
Billings Josh 1818-1885
There are many people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Chase Alexander
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Eliot T.S. 1888-1965
Four Quartets ‘Burnt Norton'
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened ...
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not recollect where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say,
‘His memory is going'.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Traffics and Discoveries „Mrs Bathurst"
‚Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily.
It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if
they once walked down a street.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains
of his judgement.
Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592
Essays
Unless a man feels he has a good enough
memory, he should never venture to lie.
Moore Thomas 1779-1852
‘Oft in the Stilly Night'
Oft, in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Nye Edgar Wilson
There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States; of course, I am speaking only from memory.
Osler William 1849-1919
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
Parish Mitchell
‘Deep Purple'
When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls,
And the stars begin to flicker in the sky,
Thru' the mist of a memory you wander back to me,
Breathing my name with a sigh.
Porchia Antonio
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Porter Cole 1891-1964
‘Begin the Beguine'
When they begin the Beguine
It brings back the sound of music so tender,
It brings back a night of tropical splendor,
It brings back a memory ever green.
Proverbs and Sayings
Chinese
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Proverbs and Sayings
French
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
Quintilian AD 42-118
A liar should have a good memory.
Renard Jules 1864-1910
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It
is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
Robin Leo 1900-
(with Ralph Rainger)
Thanks for the memory.
Roosevelt Franklin D. 1882-1945
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but booksnever die. No man and no force can abolish memory.
Schweitzer Albert 1875-1965
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Sheridan Richard Brinsley 1751-1816
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan Richard Brinsley 1751-1816
The Rivals
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Kidnapped
I've a grand memory for forgetting, David.
Vaughan Henry 1622-1695
Silex Scintillans „They are all gone"
They are all gone into the world of light,
And I alone sit lingering here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.