Quotes About Indulgence

It should puzzle us more than it does that one of the greatest foci of human ingenuity and concentrated effort over the past millennia has been the problem of how to get drunk.

My central argument is that getting drunk, high, or otherwise cognitively

On the soft bed of luxury, most kingdoms have expired.

I come and go. An edible saint. But if you feast on me you will be hungry.

Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.

I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too.

I just want to eat about a hundred million oysters and two tons of caviar and go swimming naked in champagne…

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

After dinner the doors of the apartment were thrown open and everyone, whether invited or not, could partake of the "sweet table": slices of cheesecake, bundt cake, strudel, rugelach, strawberry shortcake prepared with sponge cake, honey cake, macaroons, chocolate cake, Linzer torte, nut cookies, lemon cookies, sugar cookies, hamantaschen, prune Danish and cinnamon twists- mountains of everything.

La plebe éramos nosotros. La plebe era ese disputarse la comida y el vino, ese pelearse para que te sirvieran el primero y mejor, ese suelo mugriento por el que los camareros iban y venían, esos brindis cada vez más vulgares...

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Der bequeme Fernsehstuhl breitet weit die Arme aus, leise ertönt die Signation zur Zeit im Bild, nüchtern regt sich der Nachrichtensprecher über seiner Krawatte. Auf dem Beistelltisch in beispielgebender Fülle und Buntheit eine sortierte Schüsselsammlung mit Naschereien, aus der sich die Damen abwechselnd oder zugleich bedienen. Wenn sie leer ist, wird sie sogleich nachgefüllt, es ist wie im Schlaraffenland, wo auch nichts zuende geht und nichts anfängt.

I had a slab of German chocolate cake the size of a child's tombstone. Ralph

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Un helado es un almuerzo maravilloso cuando se está de celebración.

Las escuelas filosóficas debatían básicamente dos cuestiones. En general, si el vino había sido otorgado a los humanos para enloquecerles o por su bien y, en particular, si –como afirmaban los estoicos– el sabio podía beber sin límite, hasta caer dormido, antes de verse llevado a alguna necedad

When the belly is full, it says to the head, "Sing, fellow!"

Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

Don't multitask by combining your treats, unless you specifically design one as something stacked (a fancy coffee while reading a good book, for example). If you overload your treat time, you'll lose out on the full experience of enjoying each aspect, and the self-care might become perfunctory.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.