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Good Memory Quotes (page 3)

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. Francois Rabelais
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and..."
Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and magnified the good ones. no one was safe from its onslaught. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me. Georgette Heyer
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times..."
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche
Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations.... Mark Twain
Boethius quote: "Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their..."
...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home. Boethius
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from..."
I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory. Stephenie Meyer
To speak truth, sir, I don't understand you at all: I cannot keep up the conversation, because it has got out of my depth. Only one thing I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own imperfection--one thing I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane. It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began... Charlotte Bronte
Grandmother's voice was ice. "They do not. Your mother has been happy all these years, till you began stirring up old memories. Leave her alone. She is my daughter... no outsider shall ever come between us again... neither Andrew Stuart nor you nor anyone. And you will be good enough to remember that. L. M. Montgomery
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy victim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good. Charles Dickens
I might have been different, I might have been as good as you - wiser - almost stainless. I envy your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Charlotte Bronte
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. Eudora Welty
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. Henry David Thoreau

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