To remember is far worse than to forget.

-Benuzzi, Felice
  On being a Prisoner of  War. No Picnic on Mount Kenya.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  Speech at Edinburgh Foresters'Hall, during the Midlothian Campaign, 26 Nov.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

-Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of
c.1687  Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Miscellaneous Experience'.

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

-Herr, Michael
  In the Observer,15  Jan.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!

-Honorius of Autun
  'I Remember'.

I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heav'n Than when I was a boy.

-Honorius of Autun
  'I Remember'.

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

-Hupfeld, Herman
  'As Time Goes By', sung by Dooley Wilson in the film Casablanca (1943).

Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words filling yer head: then the other words; there's something far far wrong; ye're no a good man, ye're just no a good man.

-Kelman,James
  How late it was, how late, opening words.

We met at nine öWe met at eight I was on time öNo, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

-Lerner, AlanJay
  'I Remember it  Well', in the musical Gigi (music by Frederick Loewe).

Draw more and more oftenöremember Degas.

-Pissarro, Camille
  Letter to his son Lucien, Oct.

I cannot remember anyone ever asking 'Who came second?'Can you?

-Reardon, Ray
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

-Rhodes, Cecil John
Quoted in Peter Ustinov Dear Me (1977).This has also been attributed to Lord Milner.

There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between usöhard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  The consciousness of Antoinette Mason/Bertha Rochester at a point of intersection with the text of Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea, pt.3.

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.

-Rossetti, Christina Georgina
  Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Remember'.

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.

-Rossetti, Christina Georgina
  Goblin Market and Other Poems,'When I Am dead'.

Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,ö Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  The Heart'sJourney, pt.21,'On Passing the New Menin Gate'.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

-Sexton, Anne ne¤  e Harvey
  Journal entry,1 Jan, in The Poet's Story,'A SmallJournal'.

Till life and death remember, Till thou remember and I forget.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  'Itylus'.

   One Christmas was much like another† I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  A Child's Christmas inWales.

Me morire¤   en Par|¤s con aguacero, un d|¤a del cual tengo ya el recuerdo. Me morire¤   en Par|¤söy no me corroö tal vez un jueves, como es hoy, de oton‹  o. I will die in Paris with a sudden shower, a day I can already remember. I will die in Parisöand I don't budgeö maybe aThursday, like today is, in autumn.

-Vallejo, Ce¤  sarAbraham
  Poemas humanos,'Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca' (translated as'Black Stone on aWhite Stone',1968).