“Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.”
“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”
“Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.”
“A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.”
“How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart.”
“Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.”
“Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?”
“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
“A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”
“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
“The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.”
“Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.”
“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”
“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”
“I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.”
“To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.”
“This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.”
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
“Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.”
“The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.”
“But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.”
“Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.”
“Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.”
“Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!”