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Marcus Tullius Cicero It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
Edward de Bono Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
Cyril Connolly [Memoria certe non modo Philosophiam sed omnis / vitae usum, omnesque artes, una maxime continet]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky A memory is anything that happens and does not completely unhappen. The result is some trace which is left. The trace may last for a long time or it may last only for a short time. Information that comes into the brain leaves a trace in the altered behavi
Georges Duhamel Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honor or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together, united by a good and a kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.
Thomas Merton Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Vladimir Nabokov Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the presen
Rotarian I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the presen
Anna Mary Robertson Moses A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Jane Austen If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts If you're trying to remember a happy memory, don't think back to a time when you were ALSO thinking of a happy memory, because man, how long does this go on
Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
Truman Capote The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
La Rochefoucauld Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.
Antonio Porchia One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Benjamin Franklin Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
George W. Douglas Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.
Ingrid Bergman Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
William Gibson Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
Oscar Wilde Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
BEN JONSON: _To the Memory of Shakespeare._ Marlowe's mighty line.
Anatole France An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Aeschylus There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Ed Lindeman If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.
Lewis Carroll It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Toni Morrison All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Georges Duhamel We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
John Lancaster Spalding As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
Leonardo DaVinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
Unknown A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.
Marcus Tullius Cicero It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
Alexander Smith Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
T. S. Eliot Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.
Georges Duhamel Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Thomas Merton Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
George Santayana A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
George Dennison Prentice Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.
Francis Bacon The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
Henry David Thoreau We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
WHITTIER: _Knight of St. John._ The eyes of memory will not sleep, Its ears are open still, And vigils with the past they keep Against my feeble will.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
John Henry Cardinal Newman A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
Pierce Harris 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.
Theodore Harold White History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Gabrid Garcia Marquez The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
Sir V Pritchett All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times
Salman Rushdie Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Andre Breton I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
JAMES MONTGOMERY: _The Issues of Life and Death._ Night is the time to weep, To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years.
BYRON: _Giaour,_ Line 1127. She was a form of life and light That seen, became a part of sight, And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of memory!
Cicero 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 antiquity.
DRYDEN: _To the Memory of Mr. Oldham,_ Line 15. Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. T
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.
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 n
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
A god cannot survive as a memory.
If it weren't for flashbacks I'd have no memory at all.
'Tis in my memory locked and you yourself shall keep the key of it
A clear conscience is actually a bad memory
A liar should have a good memory.
A man needs a good memory after he has lied.
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Shoot your program and put it out of its memory!
Don't ask me, I have intermittent memory loss
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
Memory is a thing we forget with.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Out of Memory!? But I fed you 6 Megs this morning!
God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.
Program too small to fit into memory.
Everyone has photographic memory...some don't have film!
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
Memory feeds imagination.
"How much memory have you got?" "One brain, one memory."
Any given program will expand to fill available memory
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
I'm fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
A good memory does not equal pale ink.
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. - William Shakespeare
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Execute program code from Write Only Memory.

 

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