Top 100 Thou Shalt Not Quotes
#1. Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress ... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn.
Walter E. Williams
#2. Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#3. If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it ...
William Faulkner
#4. It is hard to tell whether he's being honest or following the high school commandment of Thou shalt not show thy uncoolness by openly caring about something, which I have never been good at.
Anna Breslaw
#5. 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.
Gary North
#7. He could do with some lunch. Especially since that bastard Sloane gave his Cheesy Doodles away. What kind of guy does that? A bastard, that's who. Did he not respect the male code of honor - thou shalt not steal another dude's snacks?
--Dex
Charlie Cochet
#9. Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;
Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey;
Because the first is crazed beyond all hope,
The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthy.
George Gordon Byron
#12. The eleventh commandment of art: thou shalt not be boring.
W.M. Driscoll
#13. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
[Isaiah 43:2]
Anonymous
#14. Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#16. And the Law that once contained impossible demands
Thou Shalt Not ...
actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.
Wm. Paul Young
#18. The Lord is mindful of his own." "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day ... .
Agatha Christie
#19. Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.
Steven J. Lee
#20. Thou shalt not condemn one's faith to strengthen thy own.
Ilango Boopalan
#21. The first commandment of dog behavior: Thou shalt not hump. Thou shalt especially not hump in public. Thou shalt not hump thy neighbor's wife, thy neighbor's leg, or thy neighbor's Jack Russell Terrier. - Belle, Dog Only Knows
Terry Kaye
#22. Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#23. Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.
Jerome Lawrence
#24. I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Billy Wilder
#25. Thou shalt not live within thy means
Nor on plain water and raw greens.
If thou must choose
Between the chances, choose the odd;
Read The New Yorker, trust in God;
And take short views.
W. H. Auden
#26. A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.
Johnny Hunt
#27. Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#28. The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.
John Marsden
#29. Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.
Bertrand Russell
#30. I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.
I am descended from you, and exist in your future.
Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
Charles Stross
#31. Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
Branch Rickey
#32. Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Thomas Carlyle
#33. Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#34. Hard to be Christ too, say Shug. But he manage. Remember that. Thou Shalt Not Kill, He said. And probably wanted to add on to that, Starting with me. He knowed the fools he was dealing with.
Alice Walker
#35. 'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
Leonard Bacon
#36. Lo, thou, my Love, art fair;
Myself have made thee so;
Yea, thou art fair indeed,
Wherefore thou shalt not need
In beauty to despair;
For I accept thee so,
For fair.
[excerpt from "Christ to His Spouse"]
William Baldwin
#37. Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God's I'd rather you didn't lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.
Libba Bray
#38. Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#39. Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
Otto Rank
#41. There is one Christian commandment that can be used as a yardstick ... 'Thou shalt not kill.' That is clear enough ... 'Thou shalt not kill' says you shall not kill your neighbor no matter how you feel about him.
Seth
#42. Thou shalt not invest in a needless business. Thou shalt not trade time for money. Thou shalt not operate on a limited scale. Thou shalt not relinquish control. Thou shalt not let a business startup be an event over process.
M.J. DeMarco
#43. Thou may leave the toilet seat up. But thou shalt not leave the toilet seat down and pee on it.
Jenna Jameson
#44. Just because there isn't a "Thou shalt not" attached to a situation does not necessarily mean it is a "Thou shalt.
Andy Stanley
#45. T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Ronald Reagan
#46. But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
William Shakespeare
#47. The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."
Theodore Roosevelt
#48. In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin.
Christopher West
#49. Thou shalt not turn away from him that is in need, but shalt share with thy brother in all things, and shalt not say that things are thine own; for if ye are partners in what is immortal, how much more in what is mortal?
Anonymous
#50. The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#51. If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.
John Adams
#52. Is it not laughable that we believe in a sacred,infrangible law - thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not kill - in an existence characterized by perpetual lying and perpetual murder?
Albert Camus
#53. And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Phyllis Schlafly
#54. Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?
Linus Pauling
#55. I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.
Willie Nelson
#56. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.
W.C. Fields
#57. Thou shalt not might' reach the head but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart. Also: We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them.
Philip Pullman
#59. I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.
Ronald Reagan
#60. Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#62. The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
George Carlin
#63. The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.
Rosita Forbes
#64. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Anonymous
#65. We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Philip Pullman
#66. There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.
Julia Quinn
#67. A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.
Neal A. Maxwell
#68. PRO3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. PRO3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. PRO3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Anonymous
#69. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex.
Andrea Dworkin
#70. The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.
Albert Einstein
#71. C-3PO - Thou shalt not label me A mindless, brute philosopher! Nay, nay, Thou overladen glob of grease, thou imp, Thou rubbish bucket fit for scrap, thou blue And silver pile of bantha dung! Now, come, And get thee hence away lest someone sees.
Ian Doescher
#73. There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Mark Twain
#74. Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
D.H. Lawrence
#75. What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'
Pope Pius XI
#76. Thou shalt not believe something just because you can explain it.
Arthur Kornberg
#77. If the morality of "thou shalt not lie" is rejected, the "sense for truth" will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal: - as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand
#79. In fact the whole of two-faced society paid only lip service to the ten commandments and committed adultery, stole, and cheated at cards, because, after all, it was only the eleventh commandment that mattered - Thou Shalt Not Get Found Out.
Marion Chesney
#80. For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill.
Glenn Beck
#81. Remember the 11th commandment. Thou shalt not take thyself to damn seriously.
Roy Mcconnell
#82. Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.
W. H. Auden
#83. Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket
Homer
#84. In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.
Akhenaton
#85. Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies.
Michael Moss
#86. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live' - the Americans understand this admonition, deep in their killer-souls.
Joyce Carol Oates
#87. It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#88. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Frank Herbert
#89. Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said "Thou shalt not," now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, "You will.
Betsy Cornwell
#91. The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me ... I always knew that some day I should defy it.
John Christie
#92. Thou Shalt Not Mack on Your Patients
J.R. Ward
#93. Thou shalt not steal-only from other comedians.
W.C. Fields
#94. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
Otto Rank
#95. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#96. Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
Philip Pullman
#97. Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?
Homer
#98. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.
Cassandra Clare
#99. Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#100. It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book at Rule Number Two (with Rule Number One being "Thou shalt not nail your brother's girlfriend"), I was "Thou shalt not nail your little sister's best friend.
Kristen Ashley
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