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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.
-Chinese Proverb
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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
-Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
-Proverb
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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
-Aeschylus
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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that
-Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.
-Fred A. Allen
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
-Aristotle
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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
-Matthew Arnold
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
-Sholem Asch
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
-Maurice Baring
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People tend to remember my performances, not me.
-Ellen Barkin
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God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
-John M. Barrie
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Never forget what you need to remember.
-Garrett Bartley
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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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Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep.
-Thomas Haynes Bayly
Teach Me to Forget
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Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
-Robert Benchley
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
-Walter Benjamin
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
-Walter Benjamin
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
-Jorge Luis Borges
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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.
-Elizabeth Bowen
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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.
-Sandra Boynton
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
-James Branch Cabell
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-Rita Mae Brown
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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
-Carl W. Buechner
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Books about Memory
