Top 1200 Forbidden Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

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

In Greece, the picket line is forbidden.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

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

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

Shaking hands with the strangers of opposite sex is forbidden

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

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

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

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

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

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

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

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

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

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

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

Defeat is forbidden.

Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

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

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

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

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

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

Break open the forbidden happiness.

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

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

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

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

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

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

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

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

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

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.)

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

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

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

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

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

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

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

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

I'm not talking so much about sex - after you've seen sex in a picture, what else can happen - but violence is very bad. People think these are things you are allowed to do. I think they should be forbidden.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

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

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.