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| A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. | | Doug Larson | |
| A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin | | George Herbert | |
| A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. | | Georges Duhamel | |
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| Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. | | Saul Bellow | |
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| He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started? | | Zsa Zsa Gabor | |
| I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. | | Sophia Loren | |
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| Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years | | Charlotte Bronte | |
| Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. | | Jessamyn West | |
| Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. | | Doug Larson | |
| Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
