Forget Quotes
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Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!
William Wordsworth
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Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.
Edward Robert Harrison
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
William Golding
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Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.
Zbigniew Herbert
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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
William Godwin
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
Grace Jones
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My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.
Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
Neil Peart Rush
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we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been
W. S. Merwin
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Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
Hippolyte Taine
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As a son of the people, I could never forget that my only goal should be their greater prosperity.
Benito Juarez
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Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
Lois Wyse
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Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..." "Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.
Joanne Rowling
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When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.
Lindsey Vonn
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Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
Yann Martel
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.
William James
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I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
Tahar Rahim
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Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it
Viswanathan Anand
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
Vita Sackville-West
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
William James