Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.