Franklin P. Jones Quotes

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I have a great memory.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

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

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.

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

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

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

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

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

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

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

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

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

Liars need to have good memories.