Top 344 Forbid Quotes & Sayings

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

There is no rule or tradition in the BJP to forbid leaders to contest polls after they attain the age of 75.

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

God forbid I do the 'Electric Slide' at a wedding or something. People would lose their minds.

If - heaven forbid - a shooter did come into my class, I wouldn't want to have to worry about getting caught in a crossfire.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.

God forbid that women have fantasies.

To forbid birth is only quicker murder.

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself.

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.

If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.

If Syria disintegrates, God forbid, the whole area will be under threat.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity.

I never forbid myself anything.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.

I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.

My goal was solely to fight against the aggressors, mainly the communists, who forbid my brethren to practice their religion.

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

In my studio, I forbid people to work if they have a down day.

When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.