Indulgence Quotes
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I have to say I've been pretty lucky in that my French fry indulgences don't really affect my skin. I keep a stable routine.
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What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.
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There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.
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The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.
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Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.
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It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.
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You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in their souls they refused to do so, considering it a monstrous indulgence and a waste of money!
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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.
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What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.
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Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
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I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
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I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
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To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
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She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
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The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.
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Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
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Shame can be self-indulgence too.
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The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.
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It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.
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My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.
