Best 434 quotes in «forgotten quotes» category

Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.

New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.

Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

Never grow weary in the fight to rescue the most forgotten.

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.

No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.

Not letting our mood affect the way we treat people is a forgotten sunnah

One nice thing about L.A. is that you can work here in privacy, but that also works against you because you can get forgotten here, too. I think in New York, it's hard to be left alone. It's hard to have privacy whereas here, you can have it.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

Oh, the hard, cruel thoughts which men have toward one another when they are angry! They kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon forgotten by us, but they are not forgotten by God.

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

Painful things are quickly forgotten.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.

People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.