A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.
But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Don't remember what you can infer.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and — I can't remember what the third thing is.
I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.