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Quotes About Temptation

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
~ Mary Bly
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.
~ Anonymous
You got a harem of seventy girls, you don't get to know any of them very well.
~ Billy Rose
Sir, when their backsides look good enough to slap, there's nothing more to do.
~ Peter Paul Rubens
Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.
~ George Edward Herbert
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case, we are asking God to do it our way.
~ Bill W.
Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever. Amen.
~ Matthew
One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.
~ Ogden Nash
An indecent mind is a perpetual feast.
~ Old saying
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
~ Mae West
The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
~ Kate Capshaw
Between two evils, I always picked the one I never tried before.
~ Mae West
There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
~ James Branch Cabell
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
~ Gertrude Atherton
I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.
~ Adelaide Proctor
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.
~ Aristotle
I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.
~ Jimmy Carter
Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.
~ St. Augustine
While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
~ Bible
Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
~ Casey Stengel
Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.
~ Felicia Lamport