When promise and patience are wearing thin,
When endurance is almost driven in,
When our angels stand read more

When promise and patience are wearing thin,
When endurance is almost driven in,
When our angels stand in a waiting hush,
Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.

I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

But woe to him, who left to moan,
Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

But woe to him, who left to moan,
Reviews the hours of brightness gone.