They are not commandments of greed and consumerism, but rather love and respect for fellow human beings.
Ask me on another day and it would be other books: Shakespeare's sonnets, Gilgamesh, the Greek Anthology, Sappho, Katherine Philips, Plato, Jean Genet, Ronald Firbank … So these 10 items are mere suggestions, not commandments.
The Daily Mail's "sidebar of shame" regularly holds up examples alleging women's failure to adhere to the "thou shalt not age" commandment.
We hear Johansson singing or, to be exact, melodiously breathing—"Trust in Me," which is not a commandment to be disobeyed.
I think I would have felt fine about our serving saying once — and in the tone and spirit of a request, not a commandment — that diners would be doing the restaurant a kindness to place their appetizer and entree orders all at once.
Members of the group will be on church steps again on Sunday, just as they were last week when dozens of Polish Catholics walked out of mass in protest at a bishops' message stating that abortion is contrary to the "thou shalt not kill" commandment.
These are not "10 commandments", because each of us is unique and what works for one of us may not for someone else.
It is a shame there isn't a commandment about wearing underwear; apparently she flashed her "flangiga" (is that what she said?) in a club the other day.
To avoid fashion faux pas, most executives refer to their own "Thou shalt not wear" commandments.
He that saith, "I know Him", and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in Him.
