Adam Quotes

Adam’s apple, n. A protuberance in the throat of man, thoughtfully provided by nature to keep the rope in place.

I learned how to resist all aggressive attempts to make me a docile one… Indeed, had I been Adam, I think I should have resisted the angel with his sword of flaming fire that drove him and his Eve from the Garden of Eden.

Infalapsarian, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to – in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person’s fall was decreed from the beginning.

It is said that Adam ate of the forbidden fruit, commonly called an apple, and thereby subjected himself and all his posterity for ever to eternal damnation. This is worse than visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

I wish Adam had died with all ribs in his body.

We are all desendents of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

Adam and Eve were put in a garden where everything was lovely and there were no weeds to hoe down. They were allowed to stay there on one condition, and that is that they didn’t eat of the tree of knowledge. That has been the condition of the Christian church from then until now. They […]

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

There is not the slightest doubt what is meant by the apple-tree and the apples. A beautiful bosom stood high among the charms by which the actress had bewitched our dreamer.

After the Fall in the Garden of Eden, Adam was walking with his two boys, Cain and Abel. They passed by the wrecked ruins of the once beautiful Garden of Paradise, and Adam pulled the two boys to him and looked and said, “Boys, that’s where your mother ate us out of house and home.”