Forbidden Quote by Horace Download Open image “The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forbidden Humanity Nature of man Tendencies
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It appears that the general consensus is that the more something is forbidden, the more people want to do it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. — Ovid Copy Share Image
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Its human nature. He, first of all, likes to do the work for which he is forbidden. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist. — Li Hongzhi Copy Share Image
“... it's pointless to think in moral terms when everything is permissible. We have become the people we detest. We have lost the capacity… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
