Quotes About Temptation

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

I lived by the motto, 'If you don't flirt, you die.' And flirt I did. I flirted with all women, be they actresses, producers, or 80-year-old grandmothers. I even flirted with those who were out of bounds, like the wives of some of my best friends, which especially revolts me.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

I wolf food down like you've never seen. For some reason, I have no self-control when it comes to the pace of eating.

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

There's not a single man in this world who has not cheated on his woman at least once!

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Women love the bad boy.

Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.

I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.