No Memory Quotes

• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspiring, Memories, Civilization

  "Amb. Nancy Brinker: We must never forget Elie Wiesel and his message" By Amb. Nancy Brinker, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2016.

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• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Memories, Liars

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Stupid, Computer

  "Build your foundation with basic". Q&A with Bill Gates, buffalonews.com. January 30, 1996.

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

  George Herbert

  Memories, Men, Rocks

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.185

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• An angel has no memory.

  Terry Southern

  Memories, Angel

  "Fictional character: Pygar". "Barbarella", 1968.

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• Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

  Coco Chanel

  Memories, Original Thought, Originality

  "Readers recommend: songs that sample, recycle and reinvent" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

  Ani DiFranco

  Memories, Animal, Castles

  Song: Little Plastic Castle, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

  John Towner Williams

  Memories, Boys, Age

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• He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mother's face, his father's voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

  W. G. Sebald

  Memories, Happy Life, Mind

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• It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

  Lewis Thomas

  Memories, Science, Simple

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they are only rain and have no memory of an earlier time.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Memories, Rain, Oxygen

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• Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Memories, Powerful, Men

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• If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

  Christopher Fry

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Christopher Fry (1957). “The Dark is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy”, p.58, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

  Honore de Balzac

  Karma, Spiritual, Memories

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

  Grace Kelly

  Mother, Memories, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.

  Sarah Dunant

  Memories, Talking, Rivers

  Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.264, Random House

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• Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Childhood, Sorrow

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.104

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• People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

  Gordon Bell

  Memories, Book, Numbers

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• [I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Strong, Memories

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics

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• True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Memories, Thinking, Honor

  Ambrose Bierce (2002). “Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, p.280, Forge Books

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