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Quotes About Indulgence

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
~ Wallace Stevens
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
~ Wallace Stevens
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
~ Walter de La Mare
Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!
~ Warren Ellis
It was here I usually retired to banquet on my novels
~ Washington Irving
I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?
~ Wendy Mass
When the waitress comes, Leo orders pancakes with chocolate chips and strawberries, an omelet with sausage and peppers, French toast with powdered sugar and pecans, hot chocolate with whipped cream, orange juice, home fries, regular fries with gravy, and a bowl of chocolate pudding.
~ Wendy Mass
I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was Life is short; eat dessert first.
~ Wendy Mass
apple, candy apple, funnel cake, cotton candy, and a root beer float.
~ Wendy Mass
Admit it, if you suddenly had magical powers, you would have turned that leftover meat loaf into pizza, too.
~ Wendy Mass
Randall went through two whole loaves of bread in one day
~ Wendy Mass
life is short. Eat dessert first -Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink And The Meaning Of Life
~ Wendy Mass
life is short. Eat dessert first
~ Wendy Mass
Just an ice cream can't resist your love.
~ Wesley D'Amico
The sex was like digging into an incredibly rich, gooey brownie topped with Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream and smothered hot fudge after six months on the Atkins diet.
~ Whitney Gaskell
No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.
~ Wilberforce, William
So geht es mit Tabak und Rum: Erst bist du froh, dann fällst du um.
~ Wilhelm Busch
people are first depleted by a task in which they eat virtuous foods such as radishes and celery while resisting the temptation to indulge in chocolate and rich cookies. Later, these people will give up earlier than normal when faced with a difficult cognitive task.
~ Daniel Kahneman
In another experiment, people are first depleted by a task in which they eat virtuous foods such as radishes and celery while resisting the temptation to indulge in chocolate and rich cookies. Later, these people will give up earlier than normal when faced with a difficult cognitive task.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Hedonism: The theory that pleasure is the sole value in life, so go for it. Likewise, pain makes life less pleasant, so do whatever is necessary to avoid it. In short, if it feels good, it is good. There are many philosophical variations of Hedonism, all of them a pleasure to think about.
~ Daniel Klein
Abbioccarmi in treno, al cinema, a teatro o mentre leggo è una voluttà cui non rinuncio mai.
~ Daniel Pennac
Reading something challenging feels like biting into a thick cake or having a rich coffee.
~ Daniel Pennac
On hashish, he saw the elaborate furnishings of the nineteenth-century bourgeois interior concentrating "to satanic contentment, satanic knowing, satanic calm . . . To live in these interiors was to have woven a dense fabric about oneself, to have secluded oneself within a spider's web, in whose toils world events hang loosely suspended like so many insect bodies sucked dry.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
the standard Chicago hot dog comes with everything you need to sustain life . . . until the bright green pickle relish catches up with you and you die.
~ Daniel Pinkwater