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Quotes About Temptation

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.
~ Tupac Shakur
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
~ James A. Michener
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
~ Ramakrishna
You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.
~ Emma Stone
Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
~ Emo Philips
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.
~ Rihanna
I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.
~ Paul Gascoigne
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
~ John Barrymore
Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death
~ Thomas Brooks
A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.
~ Cary Grant
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
~ Ruth Gordon
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'
~ Steve Prefontaine
The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.
~ Joyce Meyer
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
~ Lyman Abbott
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
~ John Madden
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!
~ Matt Groening
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
~ Groucho Marx
There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."
~ H. L. Mencken
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.
~ Hermione Gingold
Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
~ Smokey Robinson