Evel Knievel Quotes

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

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

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.