Forbidding Quotes

There is no law forbidding pets from eating with their owners. But I don't think it's appropriate for pets and their owners to eat at the same table in public. Anyhow, we can do nothing about it now. - Gu Zhenhua

There is mention of a sword turning every way: parallel whereto is the Word of God in a wounded conscience. Man's heart is full of windings, turnings, and doublings, to shift and shun the stroke thereof, if possible: but this sword meets them wheresoever they move; it fetches and finds them out; it haunts and hunts them, forbidding them, during their agony, any entrance into the paradise of one comfortable thought. - Thomas Fuller

The single most effective policy that can be implemented in a corporate environment is to prohibit the use of public-domain and shareware software programs... A blanket policy forbidding their use will go a long way toward providing a measure of security. - John McAfee

The designers have transformed a forbidding escalator into a celebratory and wonderfully imaginative ascent. - Amanda M. Burden

Saddam Hussein greeted me with a handshake, which, again to my surprise, is surprisingly soft considering how many people that hand had dispatched, allegedly. I think he's quite a forbidding presence, too forbidding a presence to be charming. But he's interesting. - George Galloway

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; / Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; / Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. - Bible

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. - James Merrill

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work. - Frank Borman