We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Dwight L. Moody

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Pablo Casals

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Eric Hoffer

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Voters quickly forget what a man says.
Richard M. Nixon

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
John Gay

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Brendan Behan

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. Nixon

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
Sophocles

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
Sophocles

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Benjamin Disraeli

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero