Forbids

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)

“Life’s brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

“It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)