Eternity forbids thee to forget. [ Byron ]

Song forbids victorious deeds to die. [ Schiller ]

What a husband forbids, a wife desires. [ Proverb ]

The law often allows what honor forbids. [ Saurin ]

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find.
That it excels all other bliss
That God or Nature hath assign'd,
Though much I want that most would have.
Yet still my mind forbids to crave. [ Wm. Byrd ]

With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]

Old age is a tyrant that forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The divinity who rules within us forbids us to leave this world without his command. [ Cicero ]

Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares. [ Plutarch ]

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. [ Moliere ]