I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae WestTags: humor temptation
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar WildeTags: temptation
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae WestTags: evil temptation
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham H. MaslowTags: science psychology temptation assumptions hammer instrumentalism problem-solving
I can resist anything except temptation.
Oscar WildeTags: temptation
Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.
PrinceTags: music morality temptation wrong right
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?
Frank HarrisTags: civilization punishment temptation homosexuality sins
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
Charlotte BrontëTags: morality ethics soul religion temptation law principles body steadfastness doctrine
Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button?
Ford Prefect: I wouldn't-
Arthur Dent: Oh.
Ford Prefect: What happened?
Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.
Tags: temptation
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
C.S. LewisTags: christianity temptation
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