Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity. ~ D. H. Lawrence

To err is human. To forgive takes restraint; To forget you forgave Is the mark of a saint. ~ Suzanne Douglass

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

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else. ~ Jean de la Bruyere

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ~ Milan Kundera

The danger lies in forgetting. ~ Elie Wiesel

There is a difference between not thinking of someone and forgetting him. ~ Werner Kraus

Politics is, for me, forgive and --as you may have heard-- sometimes forget. ~ Ronald Reagan

Forget goals. Value the process. ~ Jim Bouton

When befriended, remember it. When you befriend, forget it. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Work is good, provided you do not forget to live. ~ Bantu Proverb

First learn your horn and all the theory. Next develop a style. Then forget all that and just play. ~ Charlie Parker

Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past. ~ Larry Dossey, Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things