Known Quote by Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

— James Coco

Thirty is still the iconic number. It's when people compare their actual lives with what they think they should have achieved.

— Jane Fallon

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

— Lorraine Hansberry

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

— Andre Gide

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

— Stephen King

“make myself count to ten before I speak to the”

— Anne Tyler

“How many times do you get to be 35? Eleven”

— Stephen Sondheim

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“In the old days, a man was taught to forget himself. Today it is quite different: he is taught not to forget himself and…

— Natsume Sōseki

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

— Amelia Barr