Popular Quotes

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

- Henry Ward Beecher

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

- Mark Twain

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

- W. M. Taylor

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

- Tacitus

After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done, if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.

- Horatio Seymour

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.

- Max Lerner

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

- E. B. White

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

- Oscar Wilde

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

- Winston Churchill

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

- Mae West

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

- Bible

Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.

- Douglas Jerrold

Get thee behind me, Satan.

- Matthew

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

- George Bernard Shaw

I can resist everything except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde