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Quotes About Temptation

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
~ Oswald Chambers
Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
~ Nicole Richie
I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!
~ Alexander Herrmann
There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
~ Beyonce Knowles
That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
~ Bill Murray
God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar.
~ Crispin Glover
You know what, life is full of temptations
~ Smokey Robinson
Life without chocolate is just an existence
~ Sue Costello
I need one good honky tonk angel to turn my life around.
~ Travis Tritt
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
~ George Santayana
Sexual fulfillment is the banana life dangles in front of us just to keep us running.
~ Jobriath
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
~ Neal Shusterman, Everlost
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
~ William Kennedy, Roscoe
We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.
~ Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
~ David Frum
I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.
~ Mike Huckabee
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
~ Anna Quindlen
In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.
~ Gael Greene
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
~ John Steinbeck
I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter.
~ Marjorie Fleming