Temptation proverbs

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◆ I can resist anything except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

- Mae West99

◆ The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

- Abraham Maslow99

◆ There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ When women go wrong, men go right after them.

- Mae West99

◆ Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

- Prince99

◆ Power was my weakness and my temptation.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

- George Eliot99

◆ People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ Get thee behind me, Satan!

- P.C. Cast99

◆ Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

- Martin Luther99