Careful Words

remember (v.)

  He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Thales. ix.

I do remember an apothecary,—

And hereabouts he dwells.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1.

No greater grief than to remember days

Of joy when misery is at hand.

Dante (1265-1321): Hell. Canto v. Line 121.

I cannot but remember such things were,

That were most precious to me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well,

And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Samuel Lover (1797-1868): My Mother dear.

I remember, I remember

How my childhood fleeted by,—

The mirth of its December

And the warmth of its July.

W M Praed (1802-1839): I remember, I remember.

  Remember Lot's wife.

New Testament: Luke xvii. 32.

Remember Milo's end,

Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

Earl Of Roscommon (1633-1684): Essay on Translated Verse. Line 87.

  Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.

Old Testament: Ecclesiastes xii. 1.

Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?

Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;

Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,

And trembl'd with fear at your frown!

Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902): Ben Bolt.

  Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.

Old Testament: Ecclesiasticus vii. 36.

I do now remember the poor creature, small beer.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,

The power of beauty I remember yet.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 1.

  A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

John C Calhoun (1782-1850): Speech, May 27, 1836.

While memory holds a seat

In this distracted globe. Remember thee!

Yea, from the table of my memory

I 'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1.

For of fortunes sharpe adversite,

The worst kind of infortune is this,—

A man that hath been in prosperite,

And it remember whan it passed is.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1625.

  Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,—there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 a d): Meditations. x. 38.