Subject: Intelligence » Memory (Page 2)

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

 It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

I had amnesia… once or twice.


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

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature; and another woman to help him forget them.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

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

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

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

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

A liar should have a good memory.

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

I saw a commercial on late night TV, it said,“Forget everything you know about slipcovers,” so I did, and it was a load off my mind; then the commercial tried to sell me slipcovers, and I didn’t know what the hell they were.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.


Senility: The pleasantly rueful experience of forgetting what we’ve forgotten.

I am in the prime of senility.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

She has a photogenic memory.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist