The law often allows what honor forbids.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

— Anonymous

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and…

— Anatole France

Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.

— Bill Dedman

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the…

— Lysander Spooner

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys…

— Lord Chesterfield

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

— Bill Dedman

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful…

— Michel de Montaigne

“An inscription, dating to the late fifth century B.C., forbids that anyone tan hides or throw litter into the Ilissos, further stipulating that no…

— Anonymous

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

— James Madison

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids…

— Benjamin Tucker

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

— Maggie Stiefvater

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

— Friedrich Schiller

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic…

— Florence Nightingale

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Love forbids you not to love.

— Umberto Giordano