“ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 414
“ Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. ”
- Talmud- Copy
- 2.6K
“ But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 950
“ And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
- 827
“ There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
- 642
“ Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle. ”
- William Graham Sumner- Copy
- 150
“ God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. ”
- Pliny the Elder- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 534
“ But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back. ”
- Cervantes- Copy
- 4K
“ The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
- 836
“ God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ”
- Friedrich Klopstock- Copy
- 2.8K
“ God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted. ”
- John Owen- Copy
- 269
“ Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before; After deliverance both alike requited, Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
- 2.6K
“ We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ”
- Alexander Smith- Copy
- 3.3K
“ One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away; Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey. ”
- Edmund Spenser- Copy
- 803
“ Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. ”
- Horace- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 369
“ Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments. ”
- French National Assembly- Copy
- 2.8K
“ O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness. ”
- Marguerite Yourcenar- Copy
- 983
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