The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal
“Sound peculiarly appeals to memory.”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon 785
English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”
“… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 46
“I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
'Search for the Real in the Visual Arts', p. 54
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
Silence Is the Universal Library http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21396/Silence_Is_the_Universal_Library_
From the poems written in English
A Place in thy Memory, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).