Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Charles Caleb Colton

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Charles Caleb Colton

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

Charles Dickens

Lord, keep my memory green.

Charles Dickens

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

Charles Stross

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

Charles Stross

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Rig Veda

The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness.

William Shakespeare

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

Benjamin Franklin

Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.

Benjamin Franklin

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Che Guevara

Words without deeds are worthless.

Rig Veda

A man is known by his deeds. So, our deeds should be such that helps in earning respect in the society.

Francis Beaumont

All your better deeds / Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.

Sophocles

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

John Powell

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

Albert Einstein

Our lives will be measured by what we do for others

Margaret Haddix

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now,

Berkeley Breathed

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Barbara Deming

We cannot live without our lives

Jonathan Safran Foer

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Manny Pacquiao

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Louise Hay

How we start our day is often how we live our lives

Dogen

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.