Short Memory Quotes

• I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Happiness, Inspiring, Memories

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• We do not remember days, we remember moments.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  Doug Larson

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Philosophical, Diaries

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.34, Prestwick House Inc

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• We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• You never know when you're making a memory.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Memories, Aging, Incurable Disease

  Song: Young Blood, 1990

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• Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Memories, Past, Keys

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.31, Chosen Books

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• Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Freedom, Political

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• The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

  Will Rogers

  Memories, Office, Voting

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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  There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

  Aeschylus

  Missing You, Pain, Memories

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• It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Mindfulness, Homecoming

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• You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

  Steve Forbes

  Memories, Advice, Magazines

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• Originality is for people with short memories

  Grayson Perry

  Memories, People, Originality

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• The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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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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• A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

  Edward de Bono

  Memories, Doe, Criminal Mind

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• You have to have a short memory as a closer.

  Frank Robinson

  Memories

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• Happiness is health and a short memory!

  Audrey Hepburn

  Memories

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• Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

  Willa Cather

  Memories, Reality, Moments

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.625, Simon and Schuster

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• Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

  Stanislas de Boufflers

  Love, Memories, Flower

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• Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Memories, Might, Voters

  Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.42, Broadway Books

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• I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Memories, Way, Painful

  Vogue magazine Interview, November 2008.

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• I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

  Diane Lane

  Memories, Thinking, People

  Marie Claire Interview, www.marieclaire.co.uk. October 14, 2008.

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• White Americans have a short memory.

  Sherman Alexie

  Memories, White

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