Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.


The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.