#forbid

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

— Ovid

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

— Boris Pasternak

#doctor #fellow #forbidden #me #metaphysics

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

— Francois Rabelais

#denied #desire #forbidden #long #things

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#forbidden #individual #law #matter #mob

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice. ↗

— Alain Robert

#doing #forbidden #nice #sometimes

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid. ↗

— John Denham

#find #forbid #hid #know #knowledge

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#catholic #chemistry #forbidden #lawful #mathematics

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#broke #came #columbus #dimension #discovered

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

— Usher

#forbidden #play #sleeping #work

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

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