A. A. Milne Quotes

You try and remember, but it never works.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

I forgot to remember to forget.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

My memory's pretty much gone.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Short term memory is not good.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.