Adam Quotes

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.

OK, that one’s called a ‘bug.’ So is that one. They’re all just ‘bugs.’ I ain’t doin’ em all.” (Adam, naming the animals)

Her parthenogenic birth from Adam’s body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradition rests on a primal father-daughter incest motif.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ’em both a little bit naive.

When Eve upon the first of men – The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then – That Adam was not Adamant!

According to this account the promise of the devil was fulfilled to the very letter, Adam and Eve did not die, and they did become as gods, knowing good and evil.

We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.

When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, “It’s pretty, but […]

God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God’s will. ‘Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

Ever since the fall of Adam the world knows neither God nor his creation. It lives altogether outside of the glory of God. Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the […]