(40 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
“He has only forbidden you what dies of itself, and blood, and flesh of swine, and that over which any other (name) than (that of) Allah has been invoked; but whoever is driven to necessity, not desiring, nor exceeding the limit, no sin shall be upon him; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.”
quran
“Rural schools are forbidden to collect any other fee aside from the three permitted categories.”
Wang Xuming
“Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.”
“It's forbidden.”
Boris Johnson
“For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit”
“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”
Toba Beta
“Forbid us something, and that thing we desire”
Geoffrey Chaucer
“Originally the League was forbidden to touch the subject of tariffs, and there was a strong predisposition to regard banking as a mystery that must be removed entirely from the purview of governments.”
Arthur Henderson
“especially if they involve activities which would probably be forbidden by the grown-ups in charge.”
Alexandra Day