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

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

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

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

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

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

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

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

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

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

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

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

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

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

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.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.