FORGETFULNESS

Related Subjects: Forgiveness, Gratitude, Memory, Neglect, Oblivion

1. My mind lets go a thousand things,
   Like dates of wars and deaths of kings.—T. B. ALDRICH, Memory
   

2. Life cannot go on without much forgetting.—BALZAC
   

3. I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
   Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng.—ERNEST DOWSON, Cynara (Source of title of novel by Margaret Mitchell)
   

4. Lest we forget—lest we forget!—KIPLING, Recessional
   

5. I have confessed to you my utter inability to remember in any comprehensive way what I read. can vehemently applaud, or perversely stickle, at parts; but I cannot grasp at a whole.—CHARLES LAMB
   

6. Were it not better to forget
   Than but remember and regret?—L. E. LANDON, Despondency
   

7. Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.—NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil

8. We have all forgotten more than we remember.—Proverb
   

9. Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.—Proverb
   

10. It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae

11. We may with advantage at times forget what we know.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae