Sayings and Quotes

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.