Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
Kurt Cobain

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Bob Dylan

Observation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan Swift

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

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Memory is a net: one that 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

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Richard M. Nixon