Temptation Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Temptation quotes, Temptation sayings, and Temptation proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


The palest ink is brighter than the best memorys     -- Chinese saying. Thanks to Martin C Wojtkiewicz
Anything with scales counts as a fish.      -- Malay (on appearance and reality)
Appearances are deceptive.      -- Italian Proverb
Carve the peg by looking at the hole.      -- Korean (on appropriateness)
Change is inevitable      -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Circumstances alter cases.      -- T. Rymer (1678)
Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse.      -- Creole (on authenticity)
Easier said than done.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Even monkeys fall out of trees.      -- Japanese Proverb
Even the best laid plans go awry.      -- unknown
Every man has to seek his own way to make himself more noble and to realize his own true worth.      -- Albert Schweitzer
Expect the worst, but hope for the best.      -- unknown
Froth is not beer.      -- Dutch (on appearance and reality)
Give up the ghost.      -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
In a crisis, give help first and then advice.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
It is useless attacking the insensible.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
It never rains but it pours.      -- unknown
Life is not a dress rehearsal.      -- unknown
Looks can be deceiving.      -- unknown
No man can lose what he never had.      -- George Herbert (1593-1632)
No one goes through life unscathed.      -- unknown
Nothing is black or white.      -- unknown
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Seeing is believing.      -- unknown
Sometimes, it's too little, too late.      -- unknown
Sometimes, less is more.      -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The best way to predict the future is to create it.      -- unknown; thanks to rapstar.com
The price of your hat is not always the measure of your brain.      -- African American (on appearance and reality)
The rain falls on every roof.      -- African Proverb
The teeth that laugh are also those that bite.      -- Hausa tribe of West Africa (on appearance and reality)
What goes around, comes around.      -- unknown
What goes up must come down.      -- unknown
What is true by lamplight is not always true in sunlight.      -- French (on appearance and reality)
What you see is what you get.      -- unknown
What's done is done.      -- Early 14th Century French Proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.      -- Hausa tribe of West Africa (on appropriateness)
Wherever you go, you can't get rid of yourself.      -- Polish (on basic truths)
Worrying never changed anything.      -- unknown
You can't beat a dead horse.      -- Richard Trench (1807-1886)
You can't build a relationship with a hammer.      -- unknown