Famous quotes containing the word forbids:
“We are no longer Christians: we have outgrown Christianity not because we have been too remote from it but rather because we have been too close—it is precisely our more stringent and more fastidious piety that forbids us to remain Christians nowadays.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Old age is a tyrant that forbids us upon pain of death all the pleasures of youth.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)