Verb
To quit; to relinquish; to leave.
To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.
To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. Bertrand Russell
SELF-denial, n. Indulgence of a propensity to forego. Ambrose Bierce
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficultyto keep heart when all have lost it to go through intrigue spotlessto forego even ambition when the end is gained who can say this is not greatness. William Makepeace Thackeray
I will have to forego the car and even the aeroplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge; I will have to move across the sky; yes, that too will happen, believe Me. Sathya Sai Baba
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. Woodrow Wilson