Subject: Intelligence » Memory (Page 2)

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

When you become senile, you won't know it.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

(1975 – ) actor, director, screenwriter & producer

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

My grandfather’s a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice; one day, he took me aside and left me there.

American comedian

First you forget names, then you forget faces… next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

There are three side effects of acid; enhanced long term memory, decreased short term memory… and I forget the third.


Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, “You're only interested in one thing,” and you can't remember what it is.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

Recollect: To recall with additions something not previously known.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Memory and teeth grow weaker with time.

My fairy Godmother once asked me if I’d rather have a long penis or a long memory… I forget what my answer was.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

You ever drive around with an old person who knows where everything didn't used to be?

American stand-up comedian

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions – he had money, too.

(1925 – 2013) British prime minister & politician

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and – I can't remember what the third thing is.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

(1875 – 1965) German/French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician & medical missionary