A good liar must have a good memory.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.