Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.
Tina Turner

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.
Thomas Fuller

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Thomas Fuller

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Charles Baudelaire

The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson

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

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
James Herriot

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar Gracian

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary