Quotes on Forget

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

Author: Aeschylus

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Author: Matthew Arnold

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Author: Arthur Balfour

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

Author: Roy Barnes

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

Author: Frederic Bastiat

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Author: Henry Beecher

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

Author: Adrian Belew

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

Author: Jose Bergaman

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

Author: Aneurin Bevan

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Author: Josh Billings

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

Author: Eric Bogosian

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Author: Fanny Brice

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

Author: Sandra Bullock

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

Author: Neil Cavuto

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Author: Alexander Chase

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Author: Morris Cohen

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Author: Confucius

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

Author: Kevin Costner

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Author: Doug Coupland

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Author: Doug Coupland

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Author: Jack Dempsey

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

Author: Richard Dooling

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

Author: Patty Duke

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and."

Author: Arthur Eddington

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Author: Maria Edgeworth

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Author: Brian Eno

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Author: Cliff Fadiman

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Author: William Feather

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

Author: Colin Firth

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

Author: Carlisle Floyd

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Author: Robert Gallagher

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

Author: John Gay

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Author: Khalil Gibran

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

Author: Paul Gillmor

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

Author: Ellen Glasgow

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.

Author: William Golding

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

Author: Pam Grier

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Author: Matt Groening

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.

Author: Luis Gutierrez

We will never forget and we will not relent until our job is done.

Author: Doc Hastings

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.

Author: John Hawkes

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

Author: Don Henley

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

Author: Damon Hill

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Author: Christopher Hitchens

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Author: Douglas Horton

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.

Author: Guillermo Infante

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Author: John Irving

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Author: Mick Jagger

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Author: Lady Johnson

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Author: Franklin Jones

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

Author: Norah Jones

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Author: James Joyce

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.

Author: Brian Koslow

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

Author: Leo Kottke

I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.

Author: Anna Kournikova

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Author: Letitia Landon

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Author: Estee Lauder

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

Author: Arthur Laurents

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.

Author: Richard Leakey

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Author: Timothy Leary

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

Author: Annie Leibovitz

I drink to forget I drink.

Author: Joe Lewis

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

Author: Rich Little

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

Author: Yo-Yo Ma

We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.

Author: Joel Madden

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

Author: Bernard Malamud

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

Author: Nicolas Malebranche

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

Author: Stephen Malkmus

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Author: Bob Marley

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Author: Groucho Marx

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

Author: Peter Mayhew

In violence, we forget who we are.

Author: Mary McCarthy

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

Author: Hattie McDaniel

Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.

Author: Brian McKnight

I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

Author: Christopher Meloni

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Author: A. Milne

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Author: Michel Montaigne

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

Author: Leslie Nielsen

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

Author: Richard Nixon

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

Author: Carl Orff

Forget about style; worry about results.

Author: Bobby Orr

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

Author: Peter O'Toole

It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game.

Author: Tim Page

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Author: Charlie Parker

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

Author: Sarah Parker

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

Author: Estelle Parsons

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Author: William Phelps

I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.

Author: Alessandro Piero

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

Author: Michael Pitt

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Author: Edgar Poe

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

Author: Helen Reddy

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

Author: Keith Richards

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Author: Knute Rockne

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Author: Andy Rooney

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Author: Christina Rossetti

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

Author: Christina Rossetti

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

Author: Mike Rounds

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Author: Jean Rousseau

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Author: Charles Russell

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

Author: Babe Ruth

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

Author: Carl Sandburg

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Author: Carl Sandburg

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

Author: George Savile

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.

Author: Moshe Sharett

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

Author: Irwin Shaw

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

Author: Richard Sheridan

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Author: Herbert Simon

If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.

Author: Nikki Sixx

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Author: Red Skelton

Don't forget this club nearly went out of extinction last year.

Author: Alan Smith

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Author: Sam Snead

A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

Author: Warren Spahn

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

Author: Mark Spitz

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

Author: Gertrude Stein

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Author: Robert Stevenson

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

Author: Joe Strummer

I had such a great year I didn't want to forget it.

Author: Dick Stuart

This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.

Author: Janet Suzman

I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.

Author: Keith Sweat

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Author: Publilius Syrus

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Author: Thomas Szasz

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Author: Henry Thoreau

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Author: Lionel Trilling

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

Author: Anne Tyler

The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.

Author: Robert Vaughn

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Author: Denis Waitley

We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

Author: Jim Walsh

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

Author: Jessica Walter

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Author: Richard Weizsaecker

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Author: Lawrence Welk

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

Author: Dominic West

Groan and forget it.

Author: Jessamyn West

There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

Author: Simon Wiesenthal

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Author: Woodrow Wilson

I forget very fast and want to record thus simply impress.

Author: Christa Wolf

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

Author: Charles Wolfe

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Author: Thomas Wolfe