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Quotes About Temptation

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
And so i went through the looking glass, stepped into the nether world, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls where death is honour and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Men are embarrassingly easy to seduce.
~ Marya Hornbacher
She gave in to a hankering for a cup of tea even though she knew that the idea of a cup of tea-sitting still, calmly sipping-was more appealing than actually sitting still and trying to calmly sip.
~ Unknown
Num meio que nos defronta continuamente com um excesso de informações, a grande tentação de muitos é se retirar para depósitos conhecidos de informações facilmente digeríveis, menos densas, intelectualmente menos exigentes. A ilusão de estarmos informados por um dilúvio diário de informações dimensionadas eletronicamente para o olho pode dificultar uma análise crítica de nossas realidades complexas.
~ Maryanne Wolf
That's right honey...It's much easier to follow the bitch than it is to follow the saint.
~ Unknown
If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.
~ Unknown
Agatha Swanburne - "So many cupcakes, so little time
~ Unknown
Do . . . I . . . smell . . . candy?
~ Unknown
At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.
~ Mason Cooley
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
~ Mason Cooley
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
~ Mason Cooley
You've got to admit, slick, you got a skill for avoiding the devil." "That just means that now the devils out there, looking for me...and that devil is very mad.
~ Mat Johnson
Antes de conocer el sabor de las fresas con azúcar, uno no las pide todos los días.
~ Mathias Malzieu
A? vrea s? m? preschimb într-un Camel light. S? m? r?suceasc? ea pe degete, s? ating cerul gurii ei împ?r?te?ti, s? devin un fuior de fum sub?ire ?i s? m? rostogolesc pe esofag, s? ling partea l?untric? a sânilor ?i, în cele din urm?, s? prind r?d?cini în pl?mânii ei ca o floare neagr? de catran.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Mi cerebro es una casa de campo para demonios. Se preparan aperitivos con el licor de mis angustias.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Se exactamente lo que necesita el mejor pastel del mundo para llegar a serlo: un pellizco de tus pechos.
~ Mathias Malzieu
A penny from God will take you further than a dollar from the devil.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it; behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The shores safety keeps many from the oceans treasures.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Ah, Officer Orcot…what am I going to do about you? I do enjoy your company. One of these days, I may not let you leave.
~ Unknown
Once you've tasted "love" from human flesh, you're forever hooked. And mermaids have quite a voracious appetite for love.
~ Unknown
I want these gentle hands... and this kind smile... although I should not want such a thing.
~ Unknown