Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control. Cyril Connolly Memory You May Also Like We are apt to remember most vividly what we would most like to forget. By Anonymous Memory Things that live on in memory have no visible means of support. By Anonymous Memory Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. By Duc de La Rochefoucauld Memory, Wise When I am right, no one remembers; when I am wrong, no one forgets. By Anonymous Daily quotes, Memory A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. By Elbert Hubbard Forgetfulness, Memory I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. By Chaim Herzog, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Memory You May Also Like from Cyril Connolly Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. By Cyril Connolly Youth Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. By Cyril Connolly Excellence, Reputation We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. By Cyril Connolly Happiness, Passion Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. By Cyril Connolly Anxiety, Fear, Hate The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. By Cyril Connolly Fear, Loneliness, Solitude No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us—something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book. By Cyril Connolly Age, Aging, Middle Age, Wisdom
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. By Duc de La Rochefoucauld Memory, Wise
When I am right, no one remembers; when I am wrong, no one forgets. By Anonymous Daily quotes, Memory
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. By Elbert Hubbard Forgetfulness, Memory
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. By Chaim Herzog, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Memory
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. By Cyril Connolly Youth
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. By Cyril Connolly Happiness, Passion
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. By Cyril Connolly Anxiety, Fear, Hate
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. By Cyril Connolly Fear, Loneliness, Solitude
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us—something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book. By Cyril Connolly Age, Aging, Middle Age, Wisdom
