#forgets

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down. ↗

— Paul Erdos

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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ↗

— Tom Bodett

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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. ↗

— Robert Trout

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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. ↗

— David McCullough

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Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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