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MEMORIES: The most dangerous political force In America today is a long memory � and memory will not die in the Special Collections room of a good library. (J. Quinn Brisben, U.S. teacher and political activist, 1934-2012)
MEMORIES: A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. (Clifton Fadiman, U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999)
MEMORIES: Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)
MEMORIES: Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. (Corrie ten Boom, Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust, but who was arrested and sent to a Nazi concentration camp, 1892-1983)
MEMORIES: We do not remember days, we remember moments. (Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, 1908-1950)
MEMORIES: Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. (Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963)
MEMORIES: Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. (Saul Bellow, Canadian-born U.S. writer, Nobel laureate, 1915-2005)
MEMORIES: I use memories but I do not allow memories to use me. (Verse in the Sanskrit volume, Shiva Sutras)
MEMORIES: Memory is the scribe of the soul. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, scientist,and a member of Plato's Academy, 384-322 BCE)
MEMORIES: Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)
MEMORIES: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. (Lewis Carroll, English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1832-1898)
MEMORIES: People forget years and remember moments. (Ann Beattie, U.S. novelist and short-story writer, Born 1947)
MEMORIES: There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. (Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, 1862-1932)
MEMORIES: Nothing is more beautiful than the visiting of memories, EXCEPT, of course, the making of them. (Unknown source)
MEMORIES: To improve your memory, lend people money. (Unknown source)
MEMORIES: I never forgive, but I always forget. (James Balfour, Scottish landowner and politician, 1775-1845)
MEMORIES: Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. (Ben Johnson, English playwright, 1572-1637)
MEMORIES: It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)
MEMORIES: Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (George W. Ball, U.S. diplomat and banker, 1909-1994)
MEMORIES: The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. (Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist and caricaturist, 1872-1956)
MEMORIES: That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
MEMORIES: Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. (Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language, 1880-1957)
MEMORIES: The palest ink is better than the best memory. (Chinese proverb)
MEMORIES: The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
MEMORIES: To want to forget something is to think of it. (French proverb)
MEMORIES: To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. (Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet, 1777-1844)
MEMORIES: Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. (Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)
MEMORIES: The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. (R.B. Sheridan, Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, 1751-1816)