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• Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Memory

• Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.

  Kin Hubbard

  Topics in Memory

• Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

  Kin Hubbard

  Topics in Memory

• Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

  Richard Schickel

  Topics in Memory, Soul

  Tags in Journalism

• The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one’s mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

  Rebecca West

  Topics in Life, Memory, Power

  Tags in Merely

• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

  Milan Kundera

  Topics in Love, Memory

• A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men’s names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.

  John Milton

  Topics in Memory

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

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Life, Memory

• Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Memory

• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Topics in Life, Memory

• Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Topics in Memory

• Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Topics in Memory

• There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

  James Branch Cabell

  Topics in Memory

• A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Topics in Memory

• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  Manuel Puig

  Topics in Memory

• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Love, Memory

• Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

  Morgan Freeman

  Topics in Memory

• Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Topics in Memory

• We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Topics in Memory

• Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Topics in Memory