Memories Quotes

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Vision sometimes comes in a memory.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

Memories and magic is what Christmas is all about.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell.

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.

The poorest people are not people without money, but people without memories of happier times when they're down

In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

The mists of nostalgia color memory.

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They’re called campaign promises.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.

Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heart-warming!

Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.