No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers…

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

— Augusto Roa Bastos

'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and…

— Roger Zelazny

A woman is perturbed by what a man forgets---a man by what a woman remembers.

— Arch Ward

“A man never forgets his mistakes.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

— Mikhail Lermontov

“no good ever comes of a man who forgets an old friend”

— Mikhail Lermontov

“A man who forgets his past and allows the flame of the things he loves to be extinguished has no future.”

— T.J. Fisher

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

— James Coco

“The meanest man in the world,” he remarked, “is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick.…

— Jack Kerouac

He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a…

— Graham Greene

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

— Jane Austen

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

— John Oliver Hobbes

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

— Jeremy Bentham