Quotes About Temptation

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

Every man has his devilish minutes.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

There are one or two young men I wouldn't mind taking home.

His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.

Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.