| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. |
| Bertolt Brecht | Terrible is the temptation to be good. |
| Alexander Pope | But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. |
| Bible | Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. |
| Bible | But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. |
| Douglas Jerrold | Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation. |
| Edmund Vance Cooke | So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to! |
| Horace Mann | He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. |
| Mae West | I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. |
| Matthew Henry | Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. |
| Robert Herrick | Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse. |
| Tacitus | Things orbidden have a secret charm. |
| W M Taylor | Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred. |
| H L Mencken | Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body. |
| John Dryden | Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain. |
| Mark Twain | It is easier to stay out than get out. |
| Oscar Wilde | I can resist anything except temptation. |
| Oscar Wilde | The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist. |
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