Memory Quotes

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
Napoleon Bonaparte



The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Marcus Porcius Cato



In that book which is My memory... On the first page That is the chapter when I first met you Appear the words... Here begins a new life.
Durante degli Alighieri



It is true that that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Francis Bacon



All that we can remember is almost nothing. Memory is greater than we are, but memory is living and mortal as well.
Henri Barbusse



Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.
Thomas Haynes Bayly



Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman



I envy your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?
Charlotte Bront



Life is but a memory, Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show. Seems so easy Just to let it go on by Till you stop and wonder Why you never wondered why.
Nicholas Rodney Drake



Everything is resurrected in memory.
Martin Firrell



Everything turns only to memory.
Martin Firrell



One must always maintain ones connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
Gaston Bachelard



I bequeath my soul to God... My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.
Francis Bacon



Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
Francis Bacon



The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
Samuel Beckett