{"topic":"temptation","quotes":[{"quote":"Good habits result from resisting temptation.","author":"Ancient Proverb"},{"quote":"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.","author":"Bible"},{"quote":"I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.","author":"George Bernard Shaw"},{"quote":"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.","author":"James Branch Cabell"},{"quote":"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.","author":"Lane Olinghouse"},{"quote":"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.","author":"Mae West"},{"quote":"There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.","author":"Mark Twain"},{"quote":"I can resist anything but temptation.","author":"Oscar Wilde"},{"quote":"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.","author":"Oscar Wilde"},{"quote":"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?","author":"Robert Browning"},{"quote":"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.","author":"Robert Orben"},{"quote":"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.","author":"T. S. Eliot"},{"quote":"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.","author":"W. N. Taylor"},{"quote":"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.","author":"W. Somerset Maugham"},{"quote":"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.","author":"Walter Bagehot"}]}