Sayings about Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman and the ancestors of all humans. The story of Adam and Eve is central to the belief that God created human beings in a Garden of Eden, although they fell away from that state into the present world full of death, evil, pain and suffering. It provides the basis for the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors.It also provides much of the scriptural basis for the doctrines of the fall of man and original sin that are important beliefs in Christianity, but which are not generally held in Judaism or Islam. ~ An Excerpt from Wikipedia story on Adam & Eve.
When Adam delved and Eve span, where was then the gentlemen?. ~ English Proverbs
Adam must have an Eve to blame for his faults. ~ Italian Proverbs
We are all Adam’s children, but silk makes the difference. ~ English Proverb
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
A man without passion is no son of Adam. ~ Iranian Proverbs
Quotations about Adam and Eve
What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It’s not there. ~ Eduardo Galeano
I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi
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
When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? ~ John Ball
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
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. ~ Thomas Goodwin
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
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
Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. ~ Robert Browning
When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition. ~ Ezra Taft Benson
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
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. ~ Bob Cousy
And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it. ~ Neil Gaiman
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
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. ~ Mark Twain
We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman’s did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members. ~ John Wycliffe
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
Prohibition didn’t work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple. ~ Vicente Fox
The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns. ~ Tim LaHaye
Until Eve arrived, this was a man’s world. ~ Richard Armour
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. ~ Agnes Repplier
Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve – one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don’t think anyone else should either. ~ Kirk Cameron
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
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women. ~ Nancy Astor
We are all Adam’s children – it’s just the skin that makes all the difference. ~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form. ~ Mother Angelica
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
The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve; he made ‘em both a little bit naive. ~ E. Y. Harburg
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
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
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. ~ Max Muller
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
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
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
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
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow – not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother’s place is in the home! ~ Ezra Taft Benson