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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)

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

Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
Belgian dramatist, essayist, & poet (1862 - 1949)

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P.D. James

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

Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Irish dramatist & politician (1751 - 1816)

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P. D. James

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

James M. Barrie
Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937)

No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.

Abrahm Lincoln

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
(1809 - 1894)

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - )

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell
US essayist & novelist (1879 - 1958)

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910)

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russian author & dissident in US (1918 - )

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

Leo Buscaglia

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