Prosperity forgets father and mother. [ Spanish Proverb ]

He who beholds her hand forgets her face. [ Mrs. Brooks ]

First worship God; he that forgets to pray
Bids not himself good-morrow nor good day. [ T. Randolph ]

The heart that once truly loves never forgets. [ Proverb ]

He only who forgets to hoard has learned to live. [ Keble ]

Grief counts the seconds: happiness forgets the hours. [ De Finod ]

He remembers his ancestors, but forgets to feed his children. [ Proverb ]

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

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

When reduced by adversity, a man forgets the lofty tone and supercilious language of prosperity.

When a beautiful woman yields to temptation, let her consult her pride, though she forgets her virtue. [ Junius ]

The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy - its figures, its trees, or its palaces, - without a spot. [ Willmott ]

A clear running brook is the best teacher of style. There is a quick forward movement - but not measured or monotonous movement - while the water is so limpid that everything is seen through the crystal medium. It seems to me that the best style is that which reveals the writer's thoughts so easily, plainly, and musically that the reader becomes engrossed in the thought or story and forgets the writer. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]