Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

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

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

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?

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

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

My memory's pretty much gone.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

Short term memory is not good.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

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.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

I have a great memory.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.