Forbidden Fruit/Quotes

"Adam was but human--this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent."

- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

- Ovid, Amores

"When I read the warning label on the gun that read "Please do not shoot at people," I immediately wanted to start shooting at people. Why did I do something that people shouldn't do? That itself explained how primitive and childish I was at the time."

- Keiichi, telling his friends how he got started shooting little girls with his bb gun, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

"Forbidden, pp. Invested with a new and irresistable charm. "

- Ambrose Bierce, from his 'Devil's Dictionary'

"I'm not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be to forbid him to read them and then give him plenty of time to disobey you."

- CS Lewis

""The more you want to hide it, the more I want to see it.""

- So many parents.