Adam and Eve Quotes

Adam ate the apple

Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. ~ Robert Browning

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, “My dear, we live in an age of transition.” ~ Dean William R. Inge

When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? ~ John Ball

Until Eve arrived, this was a man’s world. ~ Richard Armour Quotes

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve; he made ‘em both a little bit naive. ~ E. Y. Harburg

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns. ~ Tim LaHaye

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it. ~ Charles Williams

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor. ~ Mary Astell

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. ~ Edgar Watson Howe Quotes

My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman’s ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman’s kissed it’s because, deep down, she wants to be kissed. ~ Philip Dunne

Man’s survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. ~ Norman Borlaug

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, “All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.” And they did. ~ Diane Arbus

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve – a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble. ~ Carol Gilligan

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children. ~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman’s punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him. ~ Helen Rowland Quotes

Eve was not taken out of Adam‘s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. ~ Matthew Henry

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. ~ Agnes Repplier

Adam must have an Eve to blame for his faults. ~ Italian Proverbs

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. ~ Francis H. Bradley   Quotes

Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache. ~ Hungarian Proverbs

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one… If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ~ Philip Pullman

A man without passion is no son of Adam. ~ Iranian Proverbs

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory — the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended. ~ Herman Melville

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. ~ Mark Twain Quotes

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature’s loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. ~ Henry Van Dyke

 
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