To forget would not only be dangerous but offensive. to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

For we are not as faithful to the being we have most loved as we are to ourselves and sooner or later we forget her — since that is one of our characteristics — so as to start loving another.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

It seems to me that kings — and queens — can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they’re worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.

How terrible to be forgotten by the god that made you, even if you're just a room. How could you love something that could do that anytime?

Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life? Can grey hairs make folly venerable, and is there no period to be reserved for meditation or retirement.” — Junius, To the Duke of Bedford, 19th Sept. 1769.]

Forgetting our intentions is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity.

The vivacity which increases in old age is not far removed from folly.

4693. The older a Fool is, the worse he is.