Famous Quotes
637 Quotations with Tempt.
- 81. Henry W. Fowler: Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before bec ...
- 82. Umberto Eco: I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that ...
- 83. Ring Lardner: A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addresse ...
- 84. George Tooker: Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions a ...
- 85. Oscar Wilde: Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
- 86. Mark Twain: There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is coward ...
- 87. Samuel Butler: The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- 88. Henry Ward Beecher: The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of ...
- 89. Apuleius: Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
- 90. Phaedrus: It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
- 91. Quintilian: Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
- 92. Sir Thomas More: Nay, tempt me not to love again:
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- 93. Jean De La Bruyere: Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from ...
- 94. Carl Sagan: Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think ...
- 95. George Bernard Shaw: I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me d ...
- 96. Galileo Galilei: Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to ma ...
- 97. Berthold Auerbach: Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
- 98. Tennessee Williams: Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...
- 99. Thomas Edison: I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forw ...
- 100. Milan Kundera: Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. W ...