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Quotes About Forbid

Wherever you go, said the Patriarch, I'm convinced you'll come to no good. So remember, when you get into trouble, I absolutely forbid you to say that you are my disciple.
~ Wu Cheng'en
There gradually developed between them a relationship that was not without its ebb and flow. One moment she would receive an invitation to visit Hohenschwangau in the middle of winter… the next she would be told hat she must leave Munich within 34 hours — to which she replied that she knew her rights. One moment the King would be lying passionately at her feet, the next he would forbid her to come near him...
~ Unknown
Things have crept in from nether space, whose incursion is forbid by the watchful gods of all proper and well-ordered lands; but there are no such gods in Yondo, where live the hoary genii of stars abolished, and decrepit demons left homeless by the destruction of antiquated hells.
~ Clark Ashton Smith
Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
~ Isaac Watts
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
If you forbid [children] from doing what is natural , they will seek it out later in ways that are unnatural and perverse.
~ Unknown
The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.
~ John Bunyan
I had found I could best be a good daughter by making sure my father never guessed what to forbid.
~ Jackie French
If Jucundus will listen to me," said Aristo, "I could satisfy him that the Christians are actually falling off. They once were numerous in this very place; now there are hardly any. They have been declining for these fifty years; the danger from them is past. Do you want to know how to revive them? Put out an imperial edict, forbid them, denounce them.
~ John Henry Newman
And oh, Fair plant, said he, with fruit surcharged, Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet, Nor God, nor Man? Is knowledge so despised? Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste? Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good; why else set here?
~ John Milton
In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen. As the day approached, my warm bed and comfortable house grew increasingly desirable and my dear wife incalculably precious. To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. I didn't want to go. Something had to happen to forbid my going, but it didn't.
~ John Steinbeck
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
What's the problem?" Josh demanded. "I can used my aura and just..." "..just reveal our location to everyone," Dee snapped. "No, I forbid it." "Well,if you have a genius plan, now's the time to reveal it," Josh said nervously.
~ Michael Scott
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance.
~ Osamu Dazai
Eres una mentirosa! –vociferó Alexandr–. Te lo prohíbo. Te prohíbo que vayas a buscarles la comida. Devuélveles las cartillas y diles que vayan ellas a buscarse su maldita comida. No quiero que vayas nunca más a buscarles el pan si son incapaces de guardarte un poco de la comida que traigo. Tatiana
~ Paullina Simons
But the LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORDís anointed. Instead, take the spear and water jug by his head, and let us go.”
~ 1 Samuel 26:11