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Quotes About Temptation

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
~ Emmeline B. Wells
God is only as far as we imagine Him to be. It's our fleshly desire not to run to Him that is ultimately our downfall.
~ Alan de Jager
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
~ Henry Morgan
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
~ James Branch Cabell
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
~ Charles de Gaulle
Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.
~ Sterling W Sill
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
~ John Grisham, The Testament
The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.
~ Milton R. Hunter
You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.
~ Arnold Lobel
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
~ W. C. Fields
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
~ James Lee Burke
Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.
~ Jacob Grimm
On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?
~ Paul Newman
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
~ Anne Baxter
Dear children, don't eat anything healthy at home, just keep eating those hamburgers
~ Bill Kaulitz
Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.
~ Ian Hunter
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.
~ William Cowper
I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
~ Dave Eggers
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
~ Mae West
I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.
~ Randy Newman
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
~ Will Cuppy
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
~ Dorothy Parker