Quotes on Memories

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.