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My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most men have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
Sir Edward Dyer— 1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.
Le Ciel de fend, de vrai, certains contentements; Mais on trouve avec lui des accommodements. True, heaven forbids us certain pleasures; But we always find a way to arrange things.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière— 1664 Le Tartuffe, act 4, sc.5.
And shade is on the brightest wing, And dust forbids the birds to sing.
— 1923 Fa c° ade,'Popular Song'.
The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
Thibault— 1910 Le Lys rouge.
My doctor forbids me to play, unless I win.
— Of croquet. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.
mason cooley— City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection (1991)
My Minde to Me a Kindome Is;Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other blissThat earth affords or grows by kind:Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
edward dyer— MS. Rawl 85 (1588), p. 17. A very similar but anonymous copy is in the British Museum. Additional MS. 15225, p. 85. And there is an imitation in J. Sylvester’s Works, p. 651, Hannah, Courtly Poets. Compare:My mind to me a kingdom is;Such perfect joy therein I find,As far exceeds all earthly blissThat God and Nature hath assigned.Though much I want that mostwould have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave.Byrd: Psalmes, Sonnets, etc. 1588.
I do not presume to preach to anyone; I do not consider myself a preacher or a teacher. Were it not that I am responsible for the book, I would prefer that my personality be not named as its author. The greatness of the subjects about which I offer information, relieves and frees me from self-conceit and forbids the plea of modesty.
harold w. percival— Author's Forward, p. xxi
Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
powell, lewis f., jr.— Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
henryk sienkiewicz— 12 November (Without Dogma (1891))
A license cannot be revoked because a man is redheaded or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which redheadedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing. If a State licensing agency lays bare its arbitrary action, or if the State law explicitly allows it to act arbitrarily, that is precisely the kind of State action which the Due Process Clause forbids.
felix frankfurter— Barsky v. Board of Regents, 347 U.S. 442, 470 (1954).
I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
james anthony froude— Letter II (The Nemesis of Faith (1849))
Duty is with us ever; and evermore forbids us to be idle. To work with the hands or brain, according to our acquirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
albert pike— Ch. XXII : Knight of the Royal Axe, or Prince of Libanus, p. 343; This has also been published in some editions as "To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities…"
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.
Solon— Plutarch Solon, ch. 27; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. [5]
There are necessities and impossibilities in reality which do not obtain in fiction , any more than the law of gravity to which we are subject controls what is represented in a picture. ... It is the same with pure good; for a necessity as strong as gravity condemns man to evil and forbids him any good, or only within the narrowest limits and laboriously obtained and soiled and adulterated with evil. ... The simplicity which makes the fictional good something insipid and unable to hold the attention becomes, in the real good, an unfathomable marvel.
Simone Weil— “Morality and literature,” pp. 160-161
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
— Molière, Tartuffe, Act IV, scene 5.
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.
thomas jefferson— Letter to Shelton Gilliam (June 19, 1808), in Andrew A. Lipscomb, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1903), vol. 12, p. 73.
Grant that the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is God's truth, and I know not in what way you can escape the doctrine that there is salvation only in Christ. From the liberality which says every body is right from the charity which forbids you to say any body is wrong from the peace which is bought at the expense of truth, may the good Lord deliver you.
— J. C. Ryle, p. 528. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Weak withering age no rigid law forbids, With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play.
— Book II, line 484.
Song forbids victorious deeds to die.
Friedrich Schiller— Friedrich Schiller, The Artists.
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
— Lord Byron, in Lara, Canto I, stanza 23
Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.
— Plutarch, Morals, Of the Training of Children.
My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.
— Richard Stallman, Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism, The Free Software Foundation
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.
— Plutarch Solon, ch. 27; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. [5]
Our religion forbids us from killing innocent people such as women and children. This, however, does not apply to women fighters. A woman who puts herself in the same trench with men, gets what they get.
osama bin laden— Osama bin Laden, ABC interview (May 1998).
The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind.
Flavius Josephus— Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (97 A.D).
Say: My Lord forbids only indecencies, such of them as are apparent and such as are concealed, and sin and unjust rebellion, and that you associate with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and that you say of Allah what you know not.
— 33 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
There is no act which Christianity forbids, that the law will not reach:;: if it were otherwise, Christianity would not be, as it has always been held to be, part of the law of England.
— Best, C.J., Bird v. Holbrook (1828), 4 Bing. 641.
