Memory

"Memories are like flagstones, time and distance work upon them like drops of acid."

Ugo Betti

Memory

Time and Passing

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh."

Mark Bittman

Memory

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We have all forgot more than we remember."

Thomas Fuller "Gnomologia"

Memory

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Memory is the thing you forget with."

Alexander Chase

Memory

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."

Joseph Heller "Something Happened"

Dreams and Desires

Memory

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love."

Isaac Asimov

Love

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Memory

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Knowledge, Ignorance

Memory

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."

Henry Ward Beecher

Anger

Memory

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward."

Lewis Carroll

Memory

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Memory feeds imagination."

Amy Tan

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting."

Brian Tracy

Good and Evil

Memory

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."

Chinese Proverbs

Education

Memory

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Ralph Ellison

Memory

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Edmund Spenser "The Shepherd's Calendar"

Memory

Talent and Genius

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Memory

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Never lend money. It causes amnesia."

Click if you know the author

Memory

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Happiness

Memory

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Anita Brookner "Look at Me"

Art and Culture

Memory

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Memory

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Mark Twain

Memory

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Egoism

Life and Death

Memory

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Samuel Johnson

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

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

Memory

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

James M. Barrie

Memory

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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."

Stendhal "De l'Amour"

Love

Memory

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Dreams and Desires

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Forgiveness

Good and Evil

Memory

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Laurence J. Peter

Memory

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Ros Gelderman

Memory

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

David Seamans

Memory

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Willa Cather

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Milan Kundera "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"

Memory

Power and Weakness

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Ogden Nash

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Memory

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Memory

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Ogden Nash "A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"

Memory

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

Wynne-Tyson-Jon "Food for a Future"

Memory

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness."

Dante Alighieri "The Divine Comedy"

Memory

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Iris Murdoch "A Severed Head"

Love

Memory

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Doug Larson

Memory

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Shirley Abbott

Memory

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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

Life and Death

Memory

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses."

Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound"

Art and Culture

Memory

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Groucho Marx

Memory

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)