My memory is not what it used to be, but I remember these quotes and proverbs about memory.
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A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.(unknown author)
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.Donna Roberts
At my age "Getting lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I actually came in there for.(unknown author)
Butterflies forget that they were once caterpillars.
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.Steven Pinker
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition in knowledge you forget something that you knew before.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: A Study in Scarlet
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.Kurt Cobain
Forget the past. What else is there to forget?Minkukel
Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember.Oscar Levant
He did not remember things very well, unless he put them down on his Engagement Tablet: like this: Gandalf Tea Wednesday.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
I am having an out-of-memory experience.Minkukel
I can't forget, but I don't remember what.Leonard Cohen
Source: Song: I can't forget
I didn't lose my memory. I forgot it.Minkukel
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.Mark Twain
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.Edgar Allan Poe
It'll be a memory you're trying to remember to forget.Mick Jagger
Source: Lyrics Eazy Sleazy
Liars need good memories.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.Benjamin Disraeli
Many people take training to improve their memory. Wouldn't we be better off with training that helps us to forget?Minkukel
Memory is the thing you forget with.Alexander Chase
Memory is the treasure of the mind.
My memory is not what it used to be. But I forgot what it used to be.Minkukel
My memory is so bad: I never have to pretend that I forgot something.Minkukel
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.(unknown author)
People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.(unknown author)
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.Things that are easy to learn can be easy to forget as well.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The axe forgets, but the log does not.
The biggest lie I tell myself is ... "I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it."(unknown author)
The key to happiness is good health and a bad memoryIngrid Bergman
The rest of the evening was mostly filled with drinking too much and recounting our afflictions, but as my afflictions are principally to do with memory loss I don't recall the details.Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.Thomas Szasz
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.Josh Billings
We have all forgot more than we remember.Thomas Fuller
We should use our imagination more than our memory.Shimon Peres
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.Mark Twain
