“There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.” MenMindChildrenDoeMadeWarStatesGirlFrontsDangerCircumstancesForgottenPainfulCampaignsPlanningCalamitySereneAgitationUnmarriedEntourage Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.” LittlesMadeWholeGirlHouseForgetRoomsBreakDutyBrokenForgottenSpillsMaidens Book:The Mists of Avalon Source: The Mists of Avalon
“A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says: "Yes, three months!"” HumorFunnyGirlThreeAsksMonthsDoctorsForgottenIgnorantPillsContradictoryThree Months Author:Frank Carson
“There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another.” WarRunningSchoolGirlBoysGoneClothesTownsForgottenMedicalRussiaRunning AwayVolunteerExaminationGreat WarFormality Book:Russia in 1916 Source: Russia in 1916