Top 100 Thou Shalt Quotes
#1. In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. - Sufi proverb
Margaret Atwood
#2. 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
#3. Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
Berthold Auerbach
#4. Remember the 11th commandment. Thou shalt not take thyself to damn seriously.
Roy Mcconnell
#5. 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
#6. Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket
Homer
#7. Call on me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me.
Daniel Defoe
#8. In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.
Akhenaton
#9. One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.
Simon Garfield
#10. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Anonymous
#11. Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#12. Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.
Gelett Burgess
#13. We shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness ... Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well desire. Thou shalt dwell in his family.
Richard Baxter
#14. 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
#15. I bet it's the eleventh Commandment," murmured the priest, eyes down. "What would the eleventh Commandment be?" asked Doone, scowling. "Why not: 'THOU SHALT SHUT UP AND LISTEN'" said the priest. "Ssh.
Ray Bradbury
#16. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live' - the Americans understand this admonition, deep in their killer-souls.
Joyce Carol Oates
#17. 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
#18. Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
Walter Raleigh
#19. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Frank Herbert
#20. 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
#22. The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me ... I always knew that some day I should defy it.
John Christie
#23. Thou Shalt Not Mack on Your Patients
J.R. Ward
#24. Thou shalt not steal-only from other comedians.
W.C. Fields
#25. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
Otto Rank
#26. "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
#27. Unhappy Europe! Thou shalt perish by the moral insanity of thy children!
Joseph Conrad
#28. Thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
Harold Bloom
#29. Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
Philip Pullman
#30. Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.
John Cleese
#31. Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?
Homer
#32. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.
Cassandra Clare
#33. Then he bestows the final commandment onto me: Thou shalt remake the world. This is something I would very much like to do, though no clue how carving a rock will achieve it.
- Jude Sweetwine
Jandy Nelson
#34. Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#35. 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
#36. Refrain tonight and thou shalt lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence, the next more easy. for use almost can change the stamp of nature, and either master the Devil, or throw him out with wondrous potency.
William Shakespeare
#37. I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'
Andrew Plotkin
#38. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.
San Juan De La Cruz
#39. You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [ ... ] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.
Terry Pratchett
#40. There was a new king and his name was pestilence. And he had created a new law - thou shalt do anything to survive.
Karen Maitland
#41. Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary
Timothy Leary
#42. I am not mad: I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself: O, if I could, what grief should I forget! Preach some philosophy to make me mad, And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal;
William Shakespeare
#43. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ice cream.
Kelly Easton
#44. Go where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross.
- Thomas A Kempis (The Following of Christ)
Thomas A Kempis
#45. It is written: "Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live" (Ex. 22:18); and: "In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land" (Ps. 100:8) ...
Thomas Aquinas
#46. The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind ... Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" [Matthew 22:37, 39 KJV].
Billy Graham
#47. Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.
John Chamberlain
#48. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
Anonymous
#49. The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.
Francis Quarles
#50. Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.
Sri Aurobindo
#51. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Anonymous
#52. Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.
William Shakespeare
#53. Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#54. The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.
Thomas Gray
#55. [It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the "Thou shalts" and the "Thou shalt nots" of Scripture rather than our own ideas.
Billy Graham
#57. The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.
Hubert Burda
#58. Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is Thou shalt not question.
Sigmund Freud
#59. He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.
Julian Of Norwich
#60. Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.
Reba McEntire
#61. Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her
Robert Browning
#62. Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.
Stephen Vizinczey
#63. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
W.C. Fields
#64. The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.
James Cook
#65. And thou shalt in thy daughter see,
This picture, once, resembled thee.
Ambrose Philips
#66. There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
Walter Raleigh
#67. Peace of mind: Thou shalt have it only, the answer seemed to come to me, when thou has ceased to desire it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#68. In snow thou comest
Thou shalt go with resuming ground
The sweet derision of thx crow
And Glee's advancing sound
Emily Dickinson
#69. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Anonymous
#70. They never predict anything fun," Granuaile answered. "Just once I'd like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin' Camaro on a game show.
Kevin Hearne
#71. Thou shalt not kill a child by abortion, neither shalt thou slay it when born;
Anonymous
#72. If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death. It were better for thee to watch against sin, than to fly from death. If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow? To-morrow is an uncertain day; and how knowest thou that thou shalt have a to-morrow?
Thomas A Kempis
#73. To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.
George Gissing
#74. Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information
Donella Meadows
#75. Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls' pants - use it to get into their heads.
Scroobius Pip
#76. Killing is a culturally loaded term, for most of us inextricably tied up with some version of a command that begins, "Thou shalt not." Every faith has it. And for all but perhaps the Jainists of India, that command is absolutely conditional. We know it does not refer to mosquitoes.
Barbara Kingsolver
#77. CLOWN. Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.
William Shakespeare
#78. I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.
Derrick Jensen
#79. Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides
#80. For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps,
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins
Shall forth at vast of night that they may work
All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made 'em.
William Shakespeare
#81. There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)
Liz Curtis Higgs
#82. Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.
Baha'u'llah
#83. It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#84. Whoa, boy, he told himself. Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos.
Rick Riordan
#85. A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
Marcus Aurelius
#86. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
Bear Bryant
#87. Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.
C.H.SPURGEON
#88. My soul, get Calvary's blood-red rose into thy hand by faith, by love wear it, by communion preserve it, by daily watchfulness make it thine all in all, and thou shalt be blessed beyond all bliss, happy beyond a dream.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#89. The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.
Sigmund Freud
#90. If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.
Francis Quarles
#91. Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
Thomas A Kempis
#92. If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#93. The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
Marvin Harris
#94. The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.
Rob Brezsny
#96. AND thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well.
Julian Of Norwich
#97. But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. My Father, Thou hast denied me this outward and seeming good, now enrich me with Thy love. Give me the gold of Thy favor, bless me indeed. Then, allot to others whatever Thou wilt, Thou shalt divide my portion, my soul shall wait Thy daily will. Do Thou bless me indeed, and I shall be content.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#99. And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer
#100. Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.
W.C. Fields
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