Forbidden Fruit Quotes

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

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Forbidden Love, Temptation

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Boxing, Forbidden Love

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Risk, Taste, Fruit

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• I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

  Gene Simmons

  Dirty, Men, Naughty

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

  Francois Rabelais

  Long, Forbidden Love, Desire

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• For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Children, Littles

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• Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sweet, Taste, Fruit

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• Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, Apples, Want

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

  Mark Twain

  Apples, Want, Sake

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hurtful, Sin, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.35, Nayika Publishing

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• You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.

  Ray Charles

  Stupid, Generosity, Giving

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.169, Da Capo Press

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

  Ovid

  Desire, Coveting, Strive

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• The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

  Mark Twain

  Literature, Forbidden Things, Forbidden

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Fruit, Forbidden, Propensity

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• When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

  George Washington

  May, Fruit, Seduction

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.128

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

  Quintilian

  Desire, Pleasure, Forbidden

  "Declamationes". Book by Quintilian,

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  Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”

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• But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

  Justina Chen

  Different, May, Fruit

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

  Mark Twain

  Sky, People, Gold

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

  Rae Foley

  Fruit, Disillusionment, Forbidden

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• In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
  She knew that there was something better than paradise.

  Cesare Borgia

  Garden, Eden, Paradise

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• For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

  Yukio Mishima

  Persistence, Long, Fruit

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.

  Cal Thomas

  Letting Go, Real, Mean

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• [I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.

  Moderata Fonte

  Evil, Greed, Mind

  Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.94, University of Chicago Press

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• We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Daughter, Children, Son

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