Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old temptation quotes, temptation sayings, and temptation proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Better to ask the way than go astray. unknown
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Bloom where you're planted. unknown
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Curiosity killed the cat. E. O'Neill
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Don't bite off more than you can chew. unknown
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Even though you have ten thousand fields, you can eat but one measure of rice a day. Chinese Proverb
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Every man has his price. unknown
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Gold is the devil's fishhook. Italian (on temptation)
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If passion drives, let reason hold the reins. Benjamin Franklin
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If you don't want trouble, don't go looking for it. unknown
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It's better to find a whole worm in your apple than half a worm. unknown
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Never pick up what you didn't put down. Virgin Islander (on temptation)
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Never trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you. unknown
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Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another. Benjamin Franklin
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall. unknown
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The crow may be caged but his thoughts are in the cornfield. Belizean (on temptation)
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The devil catches most souls in a golden net. German (on temptation)
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The devil tempts but doesn't force. Guyanan
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The grass is always greener in someone else's yard. unknown
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.Mark Twain
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The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.Tucker Max
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Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.Steve Maraboli
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The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.Thomas Merton
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Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.Toba Beta
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Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.Catherynne M. Valente
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Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.William Shakespeare
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.William Butler Yeats
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destructionJohn Owen
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Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.Charles H. Spurgeon
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Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers.Chinese Proverbs