(198 quotes found)
“Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”
Mark Twain
“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.”
“Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was, that they escaped teething”
“[Before opening an envelope for best supporting actress] I feel like Adam when he said to Eve, `Back up, I don't know how big this gets.”
Robin Williams
“It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve -a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble”
Carol Gilligan
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.”
Walter Savage Landor
“They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”
Winston Churchill
“Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later torments himThen makes us repent our mistakes”
Christine Anderson
“Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache”
Hungarian Proverb
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