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Success tempts many to their ruin. -- Phaedrus
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. -- Marguerite Duras
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. -- Alexander Pope
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. -- Frank Herbert
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. -- Alexander Pope
I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose. -- Janeane Garofalo
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. -- E. M. Forster
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.' -- Marcus Aurelius
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. -- George Chapman
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for. -- John Christopher
An empty throne always tempts me. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man. -- James Boswell
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. -- Saint Augustine
The charm of horror only tempts the strong -- Jean Lorrain
Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God. -- Bill Vaughan
God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business. -- Billy Graham
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least. -- Robert Herrick
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. -- George Eliot
The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown. -- Ambrose
Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth. -- Joseph Sobran
The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity. -- George Eliot
Sometimes the only thing which truly tempts us is the thing which we cannot have. -- Liz Carlyle
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men. -- Norm MacDonald
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold. -- Thomas Gray
The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction. -- Paulo Coelho
I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe. -- Tanith Lee
The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions. -- Thomas F. Wilson
He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation. -- John Milton
The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future... -- Bill Gates
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. -- George Stillman Hillard
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. -- Horace Mann
Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it. -- David Jeremiah
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. -- James Russell Lowell
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace. -- Philip Yancey
Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie? -- Albert Einstein
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor. -- Martial
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them. -- Robert Ringer
She wanted to go inside. She wanted to go in, wanting it as we want to jump from balconies, as the glint of the rails tempts us when we hear the approaching train. -- Thomas Harris
vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. -- Milan Kundera

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