Top 533 Forbidden Quotes & Sayings

The funniest things are the forbidden.

I'm a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I'm more complicated than that. I use my work as a way to get all that other stuff out and experiment with feelings and ideas, and the forbidden. That's just part of my process, I think, to identify something forbidden. That's what lures me into wanting to do the work, write the story down.

Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

Defeat is forbidden.

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.

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

In Greece, the picket line is forbidden.

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

As long as I am forbidden to see the MSPAP, my children will be forbidden to take the MSPAP.

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.” “What if it is immoral somehow? Forbidden?” “Forbidden? But my father’s love for my mother was forbidden, or at least against the law. Or do mean if she is married, or a vampire?” “Or a married vampire.” “Well, nevertheless,” Will said, with a grin. “One should fight on. Love conquers all.” Will and Jem

I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

Break open the forbidden happiness.

When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.

American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

I carry with me from my male upbringing a sense that femininity is forbidden. So when I appear on YouTube with forty butterflies glued to my body and glitter all over my face, I have a sense that I'm getting away with something I'm not supposed to. I'm being decadent. I'm enjoying a forbidden pleasure. And that's fun, and it's funny.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.)

It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still.

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.

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.

I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug." Leonid'd eyes widened. "No banana slug! Please!" "It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men? that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.