Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
1. "A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. "
Alexander Smith, "Dreamthorp: Essays Written In The Country"
Other categories: Richness and Money
2. "The advantage of having a bad memory is that you can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
3. "One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence."
Ogden Nash, "A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
Other categories: Sin and Conscience
4. "The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject."
Jon Wynne-Tyson, "Food for a Future"
5. "There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness."
Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy"
Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia
6. "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."
Iris Murdoch, "A Severed Head"
Other categories: Love
7. "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
Doug Larson
Other categories: Sin and Conscience
8. "All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."
Shirley Abbott
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
9. "The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."
Cesare Pavese, "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"
Other categories: Life and Death
10. "Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses."
Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound"
Other categories: Art and Culture
11. "I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception."
Groucho Marx
12. "The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness."
Marguerite Yourcenar, "Memoirs of Hadrian"
13. "Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
Lydia Maria Child
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
14. "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B. F. Skinner
Other categories: Education
15. "Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."
Evan Esar
Other categories: Various
16. "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
Albert Schweitzer
Other categories: Happiness
17. "I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness."
Jorge Luis Borges
Other categories: Forgiveness
18. "He is dead... because we have forgotten him."
Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Game"
Other categories: Life and Death
19. "The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory."
George Savile
20. "Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
George Savile
21. "There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering - and even more difficult."
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22. "Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother."
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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
23. "Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Other categories: Love
24. "Each day, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Let us strive to make the finest investment we can."
Charles Swindoll
Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age
25. "The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget."
John Morley
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
26. "History is a selective interpretation of events designed to justify those currently in power. Memory is the same thing on an individual scale."
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Other categories: History and Nations
27. "Everyone leaves footprints in you memory, but the ones that leave footprints in your heart are the ones you will truely remember."
Nicholas Sperling
28. "Women and elephants never forget an injury."
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
Other categories: Woman and Man
29. "God gave us memories, that we might have June roses in the December of our lives."
James M. Barrie
30. "Tell me - I will forget.
Show me - I might remember.
Involve me - I will understand."
Chinese proverb
Other categories: Education
31. "Even a short pencil is more reliable then the longest memory."
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32. "I never forgive but I always forget."
Arthur Balfour
Other categories: Forgiveness
33. "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
Other categories: Forgiveness
34. "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
Abraham Lincoln
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
35. "Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment."
Michel de Montaigne
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
36. "There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."
George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
37. "Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist."
Guy de Maupassant
38. "Like all great travellers [...] I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
Benjamin Disraeli, "Vivian Grey"
39. "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
John Kenneth Galbraith
40. "To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."
Samuel Butler
Other categories: Life and Death
41. "People in your life will come and go like the ocean tides, but few will leave such an imprint on your soul that it can not be washed away."
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Other categories: Human
42. "Everyone blames his memory; no one blames his judgment."
François de La Rochefoucauld
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
43. "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
Michel de Montaigne
44. "The things we remember best are those better forgotten."
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45. "Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."
André Gide
Other categories: Happiness
46. "When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that's Memoirs."
Will Rogers
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
47. "Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die."
Samuel Butler
48. "A retentative memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."
Elbert Green Hubbard
Other categories: Talent and Genius
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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