Quotes About Temptation

Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse.

All men are burdened with more desires than they can gratify. Because of my wealth thinkest thou I may gratify every desire? 'Tis a false idea.

EL PRIMER PRINCIPIO SABIO DE INVERSION ES SEGURIDAD PARA TU CAPITAL. ¿ES SABIO DEJARSE PERSUADIR POR GANANCIAS MAYORES CUANDO HAY POSIBILIDAD DE QUE TU PRINCIPAL SE PIERDA? YO DIGO QUE NO. LA PENALIDAD DEL RIESGO ES PÉRDIDA PROBABLE. ESTUDIA CUIDADOSAMENTE ANTES DE SEPARARTE DE TU TESORO EN CADA OPORTUNIDAD, HASTA TENER LA SEGURIDAD DE QUE SEGURAMENTE LO PODRÁS RECUPERAR. NO TE DEJES ENGAÑAR POR TUS PROPIOS DESEOS ROMÁNTICOS DE ADQUIRIR RIQUEZA RÁPIDAMENTE.

Note to future generations: In our time, are such things as credit cards. Company loans money, you pay back at high interest rate. Is nice for when you do not actually have money to do thing you want to do (for example, buy extravagant cheetah). You may say, safe in your future time: Wouldn't it be better to simply not do things you can't afford to do? Easy for you to say.

There is, in every man, an animal...imprisoned, like a galley slave, and there is a gate, and if we open the gate, the animal will rush out, like the slave finding his way to escape.

La vita, giovanotto, è una donna sdraiata, con seni accostati e rigonfi, con una gran pancia liscia e molle fra i fianchi sporgenti, con braccia sottili, cosce piene e occhi socchiusi, che nella sua provocazione splendida e beffarda esige il nostro più fervido ardore.

without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

Was it he who had shacked up with the two Martini women, the mother with the plastered face and the daughter with the callipygian figure? … Was it he who had immersed himself blissfully in the crapulous laziness of the Liberty Bar? …

The judge sighed and said something unexpected: 'This is all very regrettable, inspector!' Overhead, the piano was still being played, and Chopin's chords harmonized perfectly with the atmosphere of this grand house where life should have been so sweet. 'See you later!' Maigret said abruptly, like a man resisting temptation.

It only takes a few minutes, a few seconds, to become a murderer. Before that you're a man like any other.

O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!

She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.

You must never marry. Don't, I do earnestly beg of you, allow yourself to be taken in by any lure thrown out to you! You cannot hope to find a lady who will like you better than you like yourself.

Lord Damerel said that he knew well that it would be *infamous* to take advantage of you, when you knew nothing about the world and had never been beyond Yorkshire, or met any other men - well, only Mr Yardley! - so that you were almost *bound* to have fallen in love with him, and how *could* you understand what it would mean to be married to a man of his reputation?

where they had come from. The baker's wife saw them first, as they stood looking in at the window of her store. The little boy was looking at the cakes, the big boy was looking at the loaves of bread, and the two girls were looking at the cookies.

How can you think of cheesecake now?" Daisy asked. "I can always think of cheesecake," said Aunt Judy. "Me too," chimed in Benny. Aunt

Watch wagged his tail. Benny looked down at him. "No, Watch," he said. "Chocolate is not one of your favorite things. Chocolate is very bad for dogs, remember? You like dog biscuits

I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.

All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'

I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

Satan works through human agents.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.