100 Short Memory Quotes

Following is our list of short memory quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about no memory.

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Famous Short Memory Quotes

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. — Doug Larson

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters. — Ellen Potter

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing. — Elizabeth Loftus

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

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

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. — Michel de Montaigne

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. — Elbert Hubbard

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. — Joan Didion

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. - Julio Cortazar

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. — Jesse Ventura

It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them. — Andy Mineo

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. — Rita Mae Brown

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. — Julio Cortazar

A successful writer has a good memory and hopes that others do not have it. — Swedish Proverbs

Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains. — Proverbs

Short Short Memory Quotes

  • Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. — Kahlil Gibran
  • Originality is for people with short memories — Grayson Perry
  • Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. — Albert Einstein
  • I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. — David Gerrold
  • Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. — Ben Jonson
  • When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable — Martin Amis
  • Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time. — Paul Auster
  • Memories fade but words hang around forever. — Daniel H. Wilson
  • Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde
  • Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Short Memory Image Quotes

Short memory quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Short Term Memory Quotes

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. - Greg Maddux

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. — Greg Maddux

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. — Timothy Leary

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. — Will Self

Short memory quote Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility. — Paula Poundstone

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive. — David Letterman

Whether youre a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or youre a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, youve got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play. — Steve Mariucci

Short memory quote Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely. — John Medina

I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility. — Paula Poundstone

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading. — Pat Bowlen

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor. — Norman Mailer

No Memory Quotes

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. — Guy de Maupassant

Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world. — Masaru Emoto

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. — J. K. Rowling

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing. — Luis Bunuel

Short memory quote The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. — Desmond Tutu

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. — Stephen King

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation. — George Washington

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. - Thomas Moore

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. — Thomas Moore

Good Memory Quotes

Good memories are our second chance at happiness. - Queen Elizabeth II

Good memories are our second chance at happiness. — Queen Elizabeth II

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. - Grace Kelly

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. — Grace Kelly

Short memory quote Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet. — James Patterson

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave — Elijah Muhammad

The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory - Ingrid Bergman

The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory — Ingrid Bergman

Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster

People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane. — Kid Cudi

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! — Mark Twain

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More Short Memory Quotes

Life is short, but memories are eternal. — Mexican Proverbs

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. — Audrey Hepburn

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. — Brassai

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming. — R. C. Sproul

You Too? I thought I was the only one. — C. S. Lewis

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. — Chris Bradford

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Investors have very short memories — Roman Abramovich

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years. — Aubrey McClendon

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers. — Steve Forbes

Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture. — Jessica Mitford

If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory. — Chris Rock

They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with. — Nancy Reagan

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world. — Deborah Harkness

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. — Will Rogers

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice! — John C. McGinley

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories. — Buzz Aldrin

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh. — Mark Bittman

Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on. — Gabrielle Reece

Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it. — Chris Cagle

There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage. — Barack Obama

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad. — Lindsey Vonn

In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly. — Nicholas Negroponte

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. — Argus Hamilton

You have to have a short memory as a closer. — Frank Robinson

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have! — Diane Lane

White Americans have a short memory. — Sherman Alexie

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. — Stanislas de Boufflers

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. — Suzanne Collins

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories. — Mike Colter

A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity. — Karl Kraus

Human memory is short and terribly fickle. — Janine di Giovanni

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds. — James R. Heath

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