“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”
“Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.”
“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”
“Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.”
“The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.”
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”
“If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.”
“If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
“The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.”
“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.”
“Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.”
“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”
“When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.”
“If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.”
“What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.”
“Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.”
“I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.”
“You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.”
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”
“The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
“I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.”
“He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.”
“Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.”
“He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.”
“It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.”
“Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.”