forgot quotes

At some time during that hour, though not for the whole hour, I forgot what things were called and saw instead what theyare.

- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  Murder in the Dark,'Strawberries'.

Honey, I forgot to duck.

- (William Harrison) Jack Dempsey
  Attributed, to his wife after he was knocked out by Gene Tunney. US President Ronald Reagan repeated the phrase to his wife when wounded in an attempted assassination,1981.

And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun, And she forgot the blue above the trees, And she forgot the dells where waters run, And she forgot the chillyautumn breeze; She had no knowledge when the day was done, And the new morn she saw not: but in peace Hung over her sweet Basil evermore, And moistened it with tears unto the core.

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil', stanza 53.

Honey, I forgot to duck. See Dempsey 261:86.

- Ronald Wilson Reagan
Said to his wife, Nancy, after being shot byJohn R Hinckley, Jr, 30 Mar.