top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Memory quotes
"Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely."
"He noticed that she threw away the crumbled bus ticket on the street as soon as she got down. He picked it up and put it in his pocket along with his own a memorabilia of their first date together, just like a strand of her hair he would find later on his shirt and the broken pen cap that she would go on to search in the laboratory and so many other such small things which he would collect."
"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"
".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."
"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?"
"Memories rob us of the present."
Explore more quotes by Franklin P. Adams
"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."
"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."
"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations."
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
bottom of page