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

  • 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.

    Daughter   Children   Son  
  • 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
  • What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals - only of his rights.

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

    Apples   Want   Sake  
  • I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit.

    Sex   Fruit   Firsts  
  • We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin

  • 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.
  • 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 (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.194, New Directions Publishing
  • I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

    Kids   Fruit   Film  
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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.

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

    "Declamationes". Book by Quintilian,
  • So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.

    Believe   Garden   Names  
    Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg, M.D. (2006). “Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour”, p.9, Crown Archetype
  • 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.

    Sky   People   Gold  
  • Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

    Men   Want   Fruit  
    Darynda Jones (2012). “Death and the Girl Next Door”, p.173, Macmillan
  • He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

    Apples   Tree   Fruit  
    Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.446, BookCaps Study Guides
  • 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, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.169, Da Capo Press
  • 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.

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

    Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”
  • Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

    Sweet   Taste   Fruit  
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Letting Go   Real   Mean  
  • 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
  • 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.

    Mistake   Apples   Want  
    Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
  • There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

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

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

  • 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.

    Dirty   Men   Naughty  
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