A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Ring Lardner

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

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke

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

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Theodore Bikel

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
Roger Mahony

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Joey Adams

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

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Earl Wilson

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

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Frederick William Faber

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
John Polkinghorne

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
James L. Buckley

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

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

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
DeForest Kelley