#memory

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

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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. ↗

— James Howell

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#a good thing #ability #forget #good #good thing

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#blessed #blessing #enjoy #memory #must

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#brains #face #figure #grace #hide

Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#memory #death

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ↗

— Edward de Bono

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ↗

— Andre Breton

#above #always #amazed #attaches #been

Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory. ↗

— John Irving

#memory #death

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#guardian #memory #things #treasury