Quotes About Temptation

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.