Quotes About Temptation

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.

In the bad old days there were three easy ways of losing money - racing being the quickest women the pleasantest and farming the most certain.

Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life - unless I buy something.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.