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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.

Memories are all we really own.

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.

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.

Don't remember what you can infer.