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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 destruction.

Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

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

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.