Quotes About Temptation

Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

It takes a man to make a devil.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.

All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.