Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary…

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

— Moliere

Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a…

— Lord Chesterfield

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

— Lord Chesterfield

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

— Lord Chesterfield

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

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

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

— James Madison

“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

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

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

— 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

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

— Bill Dedman

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

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

— Anonymous