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Anonymous
(on the Gunpowder Plot)
Please to remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder Treason and Plot.
We know no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be gorgot.
Anonymous
If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.
Asch Sholem 1880-1957
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
The Bible
Old Testament: Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus ch.18 v.25
When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger.
Bynion Laurence 1869-1943
‘For the Fallen'
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Bogart Humphrey 1899-1957
in The Maltese Falcon
"You're an angel. I'll wait for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you."
Coleman John S.
The point to remember is that what the government gives, it must first take away.
Cossman Joseph E.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
Didion Joan 1934-
There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
Douglas Keith 1920-1944
‘Simplify me when I'm Dead'
Remember me when I am dead
And simplify me when I'm dead.
Fuller Thomas 1608-1661
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Gourmont Rémy de 1858-1915
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
Gowers Sir Ernest 1880-1966
Plain Words
It is not easy nowadays to remember anything so contrary to all appearances as that officials are the servants of the public; and the official must try not to foster the illusion that it is the other way round.
Hood Thomas 1799-1845
‘I Remember'
I remember, I remember,
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn.
Hupfeld Herman 1894-1951
‘As Time Goes By'
You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh;
The fundamental things apply,
As time goes by.
Lennon John and McCartney Paul 1940-1980
„In my Life"
There are places I'll remember
all my life, though some have changed,
some forever, not for better,
some have gone and some remain.
Lerner Alan Jay 1918-1986
Gigi ‘I Remember it Well'
We met at nine.
We met at eight.
I was on time.
No, you were late.
Ah yes! I remember it well.
Levin Bernard 1928
The Pendulum Years
Paul Getty ... had always been vastly, immeasurably wealthy, and yet went about looking like a man who cannot quite remember whether he remembered to turn the gas off before leaving home.
Pound Ezra 1885-1972
Draft of XXX Cantos
And even I can remember
A day when the historians left blanks in their writings,
I mean for things they didn't know.
Proust Marcel 1871-1922
That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.
Proverbs and Sayings
Chinese
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Rossetti Christina 1830-1894
„Remember"
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than you should remember and be sad.
Santayana George 1863-1952
The Life of Reason
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Sellar W. C. and Yeatman R. J. 1898-1951 and 1898-1968
1066 and All That ‘Compulsory Preface'
History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Henry V
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day.
Stubbs John Heath
Its always good to remember that people find it easier to name 10 artists from any century than 10 politicians.
Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909
„Erotion"
I shall remember while the light lives yet
And in the night time I shall not forget.
Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909
„Itylus"
Till life forget and death remember,
Till thou remember and I forget.
Tate Nahum 1652-1715
Dido and Aeneas ‘Dido's Lament'
When I am laid in earth my wrongs create
No trouble in thy breast.
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can
remember that aren't so.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Virgil 70-19 BC
Aeneid
Maybe one day it will be cheering to remember even these things.
Wolfe Thomas 1900-1938
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.