As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Jean de la Bruyere

If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Nagarjuna

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
Matthew Simpson

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
William Banting

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
Tony Campolo

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Marcel Proust

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Saint Augustine