Lord, keep my memory green! [ Dickens ]
Memory, bosom-spring of joy. [ Coleridge ]
Music, where soft voices die.
Vibrates in the memory. [ Shelley ]
Memory, the warder of the brain. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Memory is the scribe of the soul. [ Aristotle ]
All my past life is mine no more,
The flying hours are gone
Like transitory dreams given over,
Whose images are kept in store,
By memory alone. [ Rochester ]
To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die. [ Campbell ]
Memory is the conservative faculty. [ Sir Wm. Hamilton ]
Though lost to sight, to memory dear
Thou ever wilt remain. [ George Linley: Song ]
No canvas absorbs color like memory. [ Willmott ]
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [ Massieu ]
Memory is what makes us young or old. [ Alfred de Musset ]
The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. [ Tate and Brady ]
Still are the thoughts to memory dear. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. [ Milton on Shakespeare ]
A retentive memory and little judgment. [ French Proverb ]
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
And fondly mourn the dear delusions gone. [ Prior ]
Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not. [ Emerson ]
A wicked man is afraid of his own memory. [ Proverb ]
A good memory is needed once we have lied. [ Corneille ]
Our memories are independent of our wills. [ Sheridan ]
Nothing now is left but a majestic memory. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Memory, of all things good remind us still:
Forgetfulness, obliterate all that's ill. [ Macedonius ]
Sweet is the memory of distant friends!
Like the mellow rays of the departing sun,
It falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. [ Washington Irving ]
A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble. [ L. E. Landon ]
We never forget, though there we are forgot. [ Byron ]
Memory, and thou, Forgetfulness, not yet
Your powers in happy harmony I find;
One oft recalls what I would fain forget,
And one blots out what I would bear in mind. [ Macedonius ]
The memory of happiness makes misery woeful. [ Proverb ]
Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory. [ Fielding ]
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. [ Rivarol ]
Malice hath a sharp sight and a strong memory. [ Proverb ]
Canst thou not minster to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare ]
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. [ Henry Giles ]
Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain?
And with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Next, over his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole.
How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug,
And sucked all over, like an industrious bug. [ Pope ]
We must always have old memories and young hopes. [ Arsene Houssaye ]
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [ Cicero ]
Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whispered tales.
They say that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourned long, and sorrowed after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears. [ Tennyson ]
Love is the only memory which strengthens with time. [ Dr. Parker ]
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. [ James A. Garfield ]
Memory is the granary of the mind, and of experience. [ O. Commettant ]
We may say his wit shines at the expense of his memory. [ Le Sage ]
The memory is the receptacle and sheath of all science. [ Cicero ]
O memory, thou bitter sweet, - both a joy and a scourge! [ Madame de Stael ]
Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. [ Whittier ]
Experience is the father of Wisdom, and Memory the mother. [ Proverb ]
You may have a good memory but have a confounded judgment. [ Proverb ]
He that has led a wicked life is afraid of his own memory. [ Proverb ]
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself. [ Horace ]
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [ Cicero ]
All complain of want of memory, but none of want of judgment. [ Proverb ]
Memory records services with a pencil, injuries with a graver. [ De Segur ]
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. [ Ruffini ]
Memory is a Muse in herself; or rather the mother of the Muses. [ ? ]
When musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone. [ Scott ]
The leaves of memory seem to make a mournful rustle in the dark. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
And one may say that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. [ Alain Rene Le Sage ]
Sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. [ Diderot ]
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention. [ Colton ]
'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. [ William Shakespeare ]
The best way to keep good acts in memory, is to refresh them with new. [ Cato ]
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention as attention is of memory. [ Whately ]
Let us digest them; otherwise they enter our memory, but not our minds. [ Seneca ]
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory. [ Sir Henry Sidney ]
Acts of kindness are soon forgotten, but the memory of an offence remains. [ Proverb ]
Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
To endeavor to forget any one is the certain way to think of nothing else. [ La Bruyere ]
And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering over his aged brain. [ Scott ]
He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. [ Montaigne ]
It is not your posterity, but your actions, that will perpetuate your memory. [ Proverb ]
Every one complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Benevolence rejuvenates the heart, exercise, the memory, and remembrance, life. [ Mme. de Lespinasse ]
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. [ Montaigne ]
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. [ Lady Blessington ]
There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
While memory watches over the sad review of joys that faded like the morning dew. [ Campbell ]
Good things have to be engraved on the memory; bad ones stick there of themselves. [ Charles Reade ]
Thou comest as the memory of a dream, which now is sad because it hath been sweet. [ Shelley ]
Memory is the golden thread linking all the mental gifts and excellencies together. [ E. P. Hood ]
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. [ Lactantius ]
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age; but the heart can. [ Richter ]
Hail, Memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine from age to age unnumbered treasures shine. [ Rogers ]
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. [ Leonard Nimoy, Tweeted Feb. 22, 2015, five days before his death ]
How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them? [ Lessing ]
We should not pass from the earth without leaving traces to carry our memory to posterity. [ Napoleon I ]
The legacy of heroes - the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example. [ Beaconsfield ]
It is the treasure-house of the mind, wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. [ Thomas Fuller ]
A man of a great memory, without learning, hath a rock and a spindle, and no staff to spin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Memory is like a purse: if it be overfull, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it. [ Fuller ]
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true. [ G. D. Prentice ]
Injuries from friends fret and gall more, and the memory of them is not so easily obliterated. [ Arbuthnot ]
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes and the first that dies. [ Colton ]
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. [ Alexander Smith ]
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. [ Emerson ]
My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age. [ Bacon ]
The memory of a benefit soon vanishes, but the remembrance of an injury sticks fast in the heart. [ Proverb ]
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. [ Johnson ]
It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies. [ Cicero ]
A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. [ Emerson ]
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. [ Lowell ]
Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. [ William Shakespeare ]
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views. [ Emerson ]
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
In the man whose childhood has known caresses there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. [ George Eliot ]
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. [ Madame de Stael ]
Of all the rewards of virtue, the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity. [ Cicero ]
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. [ Chamfort ]
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council-chamber of thought. [ Basile ]
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. [ Tuckerman ]
I do not know at first what it is that charms me. The men and things of today are wont to be fairer and truer in tomorrow's memory. [ Thoreau ]
Without memory the judgment must be unemployed, and ignorance must be the consequence. Pliny says it is one of the greatest gifts of nature. [ Montaigne ]
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts. [ Beaconsfield ]
A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. [ Feltham ]
The term intellect
includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. [ William Fleming ]
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence. [ James Martineau ]
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted in the memory, they nourish the will. [ Joubert ]
And now he shook away the snow of time from the winter-green of memory, and beheld the fair years of his childhood uncovered, fresh, green, and balmy, standing afar off before him. [ Richter ]
The poetry of the ancients was that of possession, ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation. [ Schlegel ]
When one has been tormented and fatigued by his sensitiveness, he learns that he must live from day to day, forget all that is possible, and efface his life from memory as it passes. [ Chamfort ]
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and unquestionable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence. When firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. [ Joseph Joubert ]
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. [ Landor ]
Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter. [ Hartley Coleridge ]
We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, Drink, and away;
but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. [ Tuckerman ]
To know by rote is no knowledge: it is only a retention of what is intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it. [ Montaigne ]
Music moves us, and we know not why; we feel the tears, and cannot trace the source. Is it the language of some other state, born of its memory? For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of another world, like music? [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]
Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies; it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. [ Bulwer ]
His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]
The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]
With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]