Quotes: Temptation

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

If we know anything about man, it’s that he’s not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

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.

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.

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