Memory Quotes and Sayings

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

Lord keep my memory green.

Memories were a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

If our affections be tried, our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

It may be no more than a memory, but if it is a worthy one I shall not regret the price.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side.

While memory watches o’er the sad review of joys that faded like the morning dew.

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce ?

If you are speaking the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

We don’t remember days; we remember moments.

Memories may fade as the years go by but they won’t age a day.

Memory feeds imagination.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Don’t count the years-count the memories.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

They taught me how to imagine, and how to dream. They gave me wonderful memories, and left footprints on my heart.

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

25 Comments to “Memory Quotes and Sayings”

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  • 1. Huss wrote on 18 August, 2007, 9:08
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    Great stuff my friend ur quote got my gf bak thanks pal ;)

  • 2. Linda wrote on 4 September, 2007, 16:49
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    To make others happy, you must be happy with yourself.

    And I hope this is printed!!!

  • 3. Radie wrote on 12 November, 2007, 20:52
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    a memory is golden, maybe that is true. But i never wanted memories. I only wanted you sweet as a rose and cute as a kitten!

  • 4. Jerome Zerovnik 18yr wrote on 10 January, 2008, 18:44
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    Memories are like apples, a single bad one can turn the whole bunch bad.

  • 5. Always2ndPlace wrote on 9 March, 2008, 1:59
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    I came up with this one, I hope it doesn’t sound stupid.

    Memories are a movie you play over in your head without the background music and creative fictional twists.

  • 6. Kristen Rose wrote on 28 March, 2008, 1:13
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    Live your life so when you’re dying, you are smiling, even if everyone else is crying.

  • 7. Joe Richardson wrote on 6 April, 2008, 15:30
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    Never look back on your past mistakes; only look forward with a knowledge of them.

  • 8. vanessa Jose wrote on 14 July, 2008, 8:49
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    A memory is like a snapshop pictures, it captures every laughters and every teardrops, just so you know; it is never been missed out.

  • 9. Rajesh, Visakhapatnam wrote on 14 July, 2008, 10:02
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    No one ever knows when a person you meet occasionally suddenly becomes a part of your life whom you remember each and every moment. It all happens and only then you realize how important that person is for you. That person becomes a sweet memory to be treasured for a lifetime.

  • 10. laura c wrote on 26 December, 2008, 4:35
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    Remembering the past is one thing , but living on with it is another.

  • 11. ntek wrote on 22 March, 2009, 6:52
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    the only thing worse than bad memories is no memory at all

  • 12. elishia wrote on 18 March, 2010, 14:56
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    The only thing worse than no memory is not making new ones.

  • 13. Emmanuel Orimz wrote on 29 April, 2010, 10:34
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    I wish we could bottle our glorious moments, preserve them such that times that we are down and depressed, we could pour them in a glass and drink, reliving the glorious moments and rekindling our spirit.

  • 14. hayley wrote on 30 April, 2010, 11:37
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    Love, Live and make memories!

  • 15. Casi wrote on 21 June, 2011, 3:45
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    Memories are what we look back on, when we have nothing to look forward to.

  • 16. Ron mann wrote on 26 June, 2011, 5:16
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    A good piece of furniture is not as valuable than the memories it holds.

  • 17. Ash wrote on 10 August, 2011, 4:40
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    It doesn’t matter if we do something right or wrong, all that matters is that we make memories while doing it.

  • 18. Coco wrote on 28 September, 2011, 2:25
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    The reason why we hold on to memories so long is because while everything else changed memories don’t.

  • 19. ec wrote on 22 October, 2011, 13:16
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    Good times may come and go…but memories last forever!

  • 20. The photographer wrote on 28 October, 2011, 3:19
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    You don’t just take a picture with a camera, you take it with your heart.

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