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1. "Our memory and our identity are ever at odds."

Ralph Ellison

2. "The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."

Edmund Spenser, "The Shepherd's Calendar"

Other categories: Talent and Genius

3. "Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."

Francis Bacon

4. "Never lend money. It causes amnesia."

Do you know who wrote this?

Other categories: Richness and Money

5. "Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Happiness -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

6. "Writing is the enemy of forgetfulness, of thoughtlessness. For the writer there is no oblivion. Only endless memory."

Anita Brookner, "Look at Me"

Other categories: Art and Culture

7. "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Pablo Picasso

Other categories: Art and Culture

8. "Always tell the truth; then you won't have to remember anything else."

Mark Twain

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

9. "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

Other categories: Egoism -:- Life and Death

10. "Imagination selects ideas from the treasures of remembrance, and produces novelty only by varied combinations."

Samuel Johnson

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

11. "We do not remember days; we remember moments."

Cesare Pavese, "The Burning Brand Diaries: 1935-1950"

12. "He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

13. "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

James M. Barrie

14. "In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), "De l'Amour"

Other categories: Love

15. "You get old only when you start having more memories than dreams."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Youth and Age

16. "Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Other categories: Forgiveness -:- Good and Evil

17. "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

Laurence J. Peter

Other categories: Various

18. "I want to live in the words I throw away so someone may trip and find me someday."

Ros Gelderman

Other categories: Oration and Silence -:- Various

19. "We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us."

David Seamans

20. "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."

Willa Cather

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

Why not a gift:

Train Models -:- Bears -:- History Books -:- Jewelry

21. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"

Other categories: Power and Weakness

22. "Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash

Other categories: Youth and Age

23. "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

24. "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

25. "One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence."

Ogden Nash, "A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

26. "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"

27. "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

28. "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Iris Murdoch, "A Severed Head"

Other categories: Love

29. "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."

Doug Larson

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

30. "All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."

Shirley Abbott

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

31. "The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

Cesare Pavese, "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"

Other categories: Life and Death

32. "Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses."

Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound"

Other categories: Art and Culture

33. "I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception."

Groucho Marx

34. "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"

35. "Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

Lydia Maria Child

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

36. "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

B. F. Skinner

Other categories: Education

37. "Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."

Evan Esar

Other categories: Various

38. "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

Albert Schweitzer

Other categories: Happiness

39. "I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness."

Jorge Luis Borges

Other categories: Forgiveness

40. "He is dead... because we have forgotten him."

Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Game"

Other categories: Life and Death

41. "The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory."

George Savile

42. "Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."

George Savile

43. "There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering - and even more difficult."

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44. "Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother."

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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

45. "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

46. "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

47. "The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget."

John Morley

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

48. "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

49. "Everyone leaves footprints in you memory, but the ones that leave footprints in your heart are the ones you will truely remember."

Nicholas Sperling

50. "Women and elephants never forget an injury."

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

Other categories: Woman and Man

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