"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations" ~ Walter Bagehot

"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations
which it requires strength and courage to yield to." ~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." ~ Mae West

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." ~ Author Unknown

"If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength."
~ François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address." ~ Lane Olinghouse

"If thou wouldst preserve understanding and health to old age, avoid the allurements of Voluptuousness,and fly
from her temptations...For if thou hearkenest unto the words of the Adversary, thou art deceived and betrayed.
The joy which she promiseth changeth to madness, and her enjoyments lead on to diseases and death."
~ Akhenaten

"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."
~ Franklin P. Jones

"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse." ~ H.L. Mencken

"An abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure." ~ Ambrose Bierce

" I can resist everything except temptation." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." ~ Robert Orben

"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, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

"The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again." ~ Korman's Law

"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. Lewis

"About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation." ~ Tom Wilson