Youth longs and
manhood strives, but age remembers. . . .
— Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The true art of
memory is the art of attention.
— Samuel
Johnson
A retentive
memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of
greatness.
— Elbert
Hubbard
The right
honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his
imagination for his facts.
— Richard
Brinsley Sheridan
Forget and
forgive. This is not difficult, when
properly understood. It means that you
are to forget inconvenient duties, and forgive yourself for forgetting. In time, by rigid practice and stern
determination, it comes easy.
— Mark
Twain
Literature transmits
incontrovertible condensed experience . . . from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living
memory of a nation.
—
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The nation which
forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
— Calvin
Coolidge
My yesterdays
walk with me. They keep step, they are
gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
— William
Golding
Because I
remember, I despair. Because I remember,
I have the duty to reject despair.
— Elie
Wiesel
I do not bring forgiveness
with me, nor forgetfulness. The only
ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
— Chaim
Herzog, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Memory is the
mother of all wisdom.
— Aeschylus
Memory is a net;
one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of
water have run through it without sticking.
— Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Everyone
complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
— Francois
de La Rochefoucauld
Better by far
that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
— Christina
Rossetti
It is not so
easy to forget.
— Richard
Brinsley Sheridan
‘Tis sweet to think on what was hard t’endure.
— Robert
Herrick
Our memories are
card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we
do not control.
— Cyril
Connolly
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