Forgotten Quotes - Page 4

• With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

  Paul Berg

  Discovery, Facts, Excitement

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• Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

  Elias Canetti

  Inspirational, Dream, Helping

  Die Provinz der Menschen (The Human Province, 1973) p. 269

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• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Trust, Insult To Injury, Domestic Violence

  Letters to His Son, 9 Oct. 1746

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• There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Insult To Injury, People, Forgiving

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.87, OUP Oxford

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  Walt Disney

  Years, People, Would Be

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• Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

  Dick Gregory

  Marriage, Political, Promise

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cat

  "Ghost Cats : Human Encounters with Feline Spirits" by Dusty Rainbolt, (p. 7), 2007.

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• Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fleeting, Surprise, Moments

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• I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Joy, Understanding

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Dancing Girls”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Taking A Break, Fading, Clubs

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• Eaten bread is forgotten.

  Thomas Fuller

  Thankfulness, Bread

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• American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

  Barry Goldwater

  Selling, Importance, American Business

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• The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Memories, Remember

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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• As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

  Mark Haddon

  Kids, Fiction, Deals

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• The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Light, Discovery

  The Guardian, June 3, 1988.

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• Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

  John A. Logan

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, People

  "Memorial Day Order" by John A. Logan, www.cem.va.gov. May 5, 1868.

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• Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Spiritual, Women, Civilization

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• Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Goal, Effort

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, introduction (1905)

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• It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

  Al Sharpton

  Kings, Vision, Drs

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• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  Aaron Siskind

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

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• Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Kindness, Men, Mind

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4253, Delphi Classics

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• Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Love, Women, Kissing

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• Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Soldier

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