sherikaz@lemmy.ca to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 1 day agoBe thankful you're not richlemmy.caexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1894arrow-down110
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minus-squareNONE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up91·1 day agoWhen you can have everything, what you want most is what you are not allowed to have.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 hours agoPlus, to get filthy rich in the first place you usually have to be a pretty slimy and immoral person.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-21 day agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forbidden_fruit_is_the_sweetest forbidden fruit is the sweetest Etymology A reference to the story in the Bible in which God tells Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit, but they are tempted and do so anyway. Proverb Forbidden things seem more appealing; people desire things more if (or, in some way, because) they can’t have them.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 day agoOr cannot have. Money and even power only gets you so far.
When you can have everything, what you want most is what you are not allowed to have.
Plus, to get filthy rich in the first place you usually have to be a pretty slimy and immoral person.
Facts
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forbidden_fruit_is_the_sweetest
Or cannot have. Money and even power only gets you so far.