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- We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
- It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
- An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
- Ellen DeGeneres, on Oprah Winfrey 1995
- Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!
- Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
- [Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
- When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
- Memory feeds imagination.
- Amy Tan (1952 - )
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