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Forbidden Quotes

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

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

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

"Games for Actors and non-Actors". Book by Augusto Boal, p. xxvi, 1992.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

"Annales" (AD 117), XIII, 1, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 600-02, 1922.

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

Heinrich Bullinger, Harding (1850). “The Decades of H. Bullinger ..”, p.55

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

"Moonwalk". Autobiography by Michael Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 1988.

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

Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

Malika Booker, Sharon Olds, Warsan Shire (2017). “Penguin Modern Poets 3: Your Family, Your Body”, p.71, Penguin UK