Top 1200 Forbidden Fruit Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

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

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

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

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

When I was fighting, there was no boxing in Saudi Arabia because it was forbidden.

Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

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

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

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

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

In Greece, the picket line is forbidden.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

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

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

In a country like India, we don't want to put everyone in one big mixture. We have a different language, culture and cuisine for each region, even though we are united in the larger context. We are more like a fruit salad, where each ingredient has its own specialty, each fruit its distinct flavor, and together, the salad makes a tasty dish, without losing the individuality of each constituent.

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

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

Shaking hands with the strangers of opposite sex is forbidden

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

Break open the forbidden happiness.

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

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

I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

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

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.