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Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep.—T. H. BAYLY, Teach Me to Forget
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Memory, no less than hope, owes its charm to "the far away."—BULWER-LYTTON, A Lament
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While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.—THOMAS CAMPBELL, Pleasures of Hope
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To live in hearts we leave behind.
Is not to die.—THOMAS CAMPBELL, Hallowed Ground
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My memory is so bad, that many times I forget my own name!—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
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A man should choose with careful eye
The things to be remembered by.—ROBERT P. T. COFFIN, The Weather Vane
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In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.—JOSEPH CONRAD, The Arrow of Gold
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It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.—DE QUINCEY, Confessions of an English
Opium-Eater
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O Memory! thou fond deceiver.—GOLDSMITH, The Captivity
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A place in thy memory, dearest,
Is all that I claim;
To pause and look back when thou hearest
The sound of my name.—GERALD GRIFFIN, A Place in Thy Memory
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I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day.—THOMAS HOOD, I Remember, I Remember
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Tho' lost to sight, to memory dear
Thou ever wilt remain;
One only hope my heart can cheer,—
The hope to meet again.—GEORGE LINLEY, Song
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Oft in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond memory brings the light
Of other days around me;
The smiles, the tears,
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
Now dimmed and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken.—THOMAS MOORE, Oft in the Stilly Night
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The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.—JOHN MORLEY, Recollections
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A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called a grammar.—CARDINAL NEWMAN, The Idea of a University
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Remembrance and reflection how allied!
What thin partitions sense from thought divide!—POPE, Essay on Man
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Memory is the treasurer of the mind.—Proverb
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.—Proverb
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Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale,
Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.—SAMUEL ROGERS, The Pleasures of Memory
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Still are the thoughts to memory dear.—SCOTT, Rokeby
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When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.—SCOTT, Marmion
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The memory be green.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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While memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe. Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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I'll note you in my book of memory.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
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Memory, the warder of the brain.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste.—SHAKESPEARE,
Sonnet XXX
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The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.—SHERIDAN
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Dreamthorp
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Some mindfulness
A man should surely keep, of any thing
That pleased him once.—SOPHOCLES, Ajax
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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.—OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest
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How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view.—SAMUEL WOODWORTH,The Old Oaken Bucket
