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

'T is one thing to be tempted, ... Another thing to fall.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!

Lock your door and preserve your neighbor's honor.

Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Honest bread is very well-it's the butter that makes the temptation.

Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

Temptations hurt not, though they have access; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingness.

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

An open door may tempt a saint.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

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.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed-up mirror.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

I can resist everything except temptation.

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