A Quote by Ralph Cudworth

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

Ralph Cudworth

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Ralph Cudworth
British - Theologian
1617 - June 26, 1688

So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.

Mark Leyner

Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.

Myron Scholes

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

Robert Musil

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

Rae Foley

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

John F. Kennedy

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Abigail Van Buren

Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

Darynda Jones

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

Mark Twain

I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.

Amanda Gorman

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

Yehuda Levi

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

George Washington

As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer's true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting forbidden fruit.

Sarah Weinman

The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

Charles P. Kindleberger

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.