Temptation - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58919<![CDATA[I can resist anything except temptation. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58920<![CDATA[Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58921<![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58922<![CDATA[The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58923<![CDATA[Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58913<![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58914<![CDATA[Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58915<![CDATA[Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58916<![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58917<![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58918<![CDATA[Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58906<![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58907<![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is that temptation ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58908<![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be beguiled ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58909<![CDATA[Tempt not a desperate man. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58910<![CDATA[Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death? ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58911<![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58912<![CDATA[Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58901<![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58902<![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58903<![CDATA[Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back When gold and silver becks me to come on. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58904<![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58905<![CDATA[I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58895<![CDATA[So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58896<![CDATA[The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58897<![CDATA[Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain. [Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58898<![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58899<![CDATA[Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58900<![CDATA[The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58889<![CDATA[Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58890<![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58891<![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58892<![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58893<![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58894<![CDATA[I deal with temptation by yielding to it ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58884<![CDATA['Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58885<![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58886<![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58887<![CDATA[When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58888<![CDATA[Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10188<![CDATA[By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3646<![CDATA[What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/493<![CDATA[It is easier to stay out than get out. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/347