Memories Quotes

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

John Locke

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Willa Cather

Liars ought to have good memories

Algernon Sidney

Memories are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow.

Philip Moeller

Memory breeds in me strange loneliness.

William Herbert Carruth

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.

Jean Paul Richter

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Edward de Bono

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Salvador Dali

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Samuel Johnson

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

George Santayana

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

J.M. Barrie

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

Pierce Harris

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Josh Billings

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.