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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
We bury love,
Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;
That is a thing to weep for, not read more
We bury love,
Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;
That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.
- Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr),
Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.
- Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr),
God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
[Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.]
It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
[Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.]
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we read more
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine--
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget--lest we forget!