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Memory

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Wilde, Oscar

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne

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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Coward, Noel

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Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare