A Quote by Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.

Wolfgang Schauble

Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

Brigham Young

It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good.

Alphonsus Liguori

Nothing Succeeds like excess!

Anna Dello Russo

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Oscar Wilde

I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.

Bjork

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Margaret Atwood

Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

Roy Baumeister

A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.