Quotes About Temptation

There's a certain kind of dark-crusted sourdough bread I'm incapable of resisting. A sixth sense alerts me anytime I veer within a three-block radius of a bakery offering tangy country loaves with mahogany crusts. Without fail, I'll make my way inside and buy one, even if there's already half a loaf growing stale on my countertop.

I remember relishing the aloo pakodas at a stall near Dover Lane back in my younger days.

I can't even count the number of times I've obliterated my diet with a binge session. One second, I'm floating along just fine, four days into a successful low-carb lifestyle. The next? I'm standing alone in a dark kitchen, eating a sleeve of Ritz crackers and cream cheese with a spoon.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?