memory quotes

Abraham Lincoln: 

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Albert Schweitzer: 

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Anne Sexton: 

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Art Buchwald: 

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

David Seamans: 

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

George Bernard Shaw: 

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Leonardo da Vinci: 

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Mark Twain: 

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Nietzsche: 

'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that' -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields.

Pericles (attributed): 

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Peter Berger: 

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Robert Frost: 

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Sam Rayburn: 

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Samuel Johnson: 

Memory is the mother of all wisdom. 

Willa Cather: 

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.