Post #3350

They tell of Themistocles, that when a certain man of high culture and eminent learning came to him and offered to instruct him in the art of memory... Themistocles replied that he would do him a much greater favor if he would teach him the art of forgetting; for I remember what I would not, and cannot forget what I would.
—Saying of Themistocles, as recorded by Cicero.

Post #2411

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death.

—John Greenleaf Whittier

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Post #2142

Memory is what makes us young or old.
—Alfred de Musset

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Post #1617

No canvas absorbs color like memory.
—Robert Aris Willmott

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Post #1442

Hail, Memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine from age to age unnumbered treasures shine.
—Samuel Rogers

Post #1233

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

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Post #1039

God gave us memory so we might have roses in December.
—Sir James M. Barrie

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Post #983

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
—Mark Twain

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Post #827

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
—Ben Jonson

Post #346

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
—Thomas Fuller

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Post #27

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
—Cicero