Famous quotes containing the word tempt:
“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman’s face, or worse
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed toil.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune’s pow’r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach’rous shore.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)