#temptation

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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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

#am #any #deeply #fear #forgo

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#temptation

Chapter Eleven: C’mon good girl, be bad. ↗

— Nicki Elson

#sex #temptation #temptation

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

— William Hazlitt

#find #many #only #prohibition #temptation

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

#been #companion #dinner #done #go

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society. ↗

— William Falconer

#crowded #expose #fewer #follow #health

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#eden #ever #garden #here #since

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#concern #congressional #difficulty #favor #given

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings