• A land without ruins is a land without memories — a land without memories is a land without history. ~ Abram Joseph Ryan
  • A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations. ~ Muriel James
  • Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. ~ Lillie Langtry
  • Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? ~ W. J. Wetherby
  • As the dew to the blossom, the bud to the bee; as the scent to the rose, are those memories to me. ~ Amelia C. Welby
  • Creditors have better memories than debtors. ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events. ~ Adrienne Rich
  • Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories. ~ Walter Benjamin
  • Good memories last long, bad ones last longer. ~ Czech Proverb
  • I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories or have never done anything worth remembering. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  • It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe — though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now. Because it’s in the past; because we have survived. ~ Susan Sontag
  • Liars need to have good memories. ~ Algernon Sidney
  • Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. ~ Cathy Allen
  • Memories are all we really own. ~ Elias Lieberman
  • Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. ~ Corrie Ten Boom
  • Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye. ~ Author Unknown
  • Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. ~ Philip Roth
  • One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. ~ Author Unknown
  • Our hopes are but memories reversed. ~ Author Unknown
  • Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. ~ Cyril Connolly
  • People often get their imaginations mixed up with their memories. ~ P.K. Shaw
  • People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering. ~ Author Unknown
  • Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories. ~ Denis Diderot
  • So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ~ Author Unknown
  • So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies. ~ John Mason Brown
  • Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. ~ Willa Cather
  • Some of my fondest memories in sports were a result of failure, injuries, setbacks, and mistakes. I learned far more about myself and gained more character in those difficult times than I ever did when success came early. ~ Peter Vidmar
  • Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Take only memories leave nothing but footprints. ~ Chief Seattle
  • The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. ~ Salvador Dali
  • The memories of one’s youth make for long, long thoughts. ~ Finnish Proverb
  • The short memories of American voters are what keep our politicians in office. ~ Will Rogers
  • They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To me, a picture is worth a thousand memories; for when all is said and done, it is the memories that last with us forever.~ Jeffrey A. Goodman
  • Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude. ~ Eric Hoffer
  • We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. ~ Cesare Pavese
  • Youth lives on hope, old age on memories. ~ French Proverb

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