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Quotes About Temptation

La curiosidad es la madre de todos los pecados, pero también de todas las ciencias.
~ Isabel Allende
But beyond confusion and rage, the strongest feeling I remember having that night was frustrated desire, because I would never be able to satisfy my need to run my hands over Rosa's body, to penetrate her secrets, to release the green fountain of her hair and plunge into its deepest waters.
~ Isabel Allende
le pareció que el gusto que se daba y que se daría en el futuro bien valía el riesgo del infierno
~ Isabel Allende
Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.
~ Isabel Allende
I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.
~ Jocko Willink
The most dangerous thing a Bachelor or Bachelorette can do is zero in on someone early and just shut everybody and everything else out emotionally.
~ Chris Harrison
The main challenge is food. I need to zip my mouth and not give in to cravings.
~ Angad Bedi
I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.
~ Susan Orlean
Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose; Strange his first sleep would be his last repose.
~ Anonymous
When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.
~ Thomas Hood
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
~ Hungarian proverb
Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways
~ Angela Merici
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
~ Anonymous
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
~ Bertrand Russell
Every man has his price.
~ Sir Robert Walpole
Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
~ Franklin P. Jones
When the cat's away the mice will play.
~ English proverb
Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
~ Daniel Defoe
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A church debt is the devil's salary.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
"Will you walk into my parlour?" Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy."
~ Mary Howitt
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
~ Kathleen Raine