Quotes About Memory

Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never forget." "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week.

There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

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

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.