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Quotes About Indulgence

I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
Wine and wenches empty mens purses.
~ English proverb
Recordó arrepentido su último ligue con una loca levantada en el Nueve, una diseñadora de vestuario mimosa hasta el empalago. Fue como acostarse con un malvavisco.
~ Enrique Serna
Mandami un pentolino di formaggio, perché io possa far baldoria quando ne ho voglia.
~ Epicuro
Send me a pot of cheese, so that I may be able to indulge myself whenever I wish.
~ Epicurus
On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.
~ Eric Carle
She must remain vigilant not only against overt threats—and a fifteen-foot-tall Tzimisce war ghoul was not entirely out of the realm of possibility here, she reminded herself ruefully—but especially against the more subtle dangers: impatience, indulgence, indiscretion. These three deadly sisters would kill as surely, if not as swiftly, as any fiend.
~ Eric Griffin
The eldest son, the Prince of Wales, was the undisputed leader of the unfiltered pack and is believed, among other accomplishments, to have bedded seven thousand women; he is said to have snipped and kept a lock of hair from each of them.
~ Eric Metaxas
There is great food in Vegas.
~ Eric Ripert
So are we going to eat some Boo Berry or what?" John said, leaping out of his seat and toward the refrigerator.
~ Eric Spitznagel
It's like a blueberry White Russian,' John said, now on his third spoonful. 'It tastes exactly the same,' Mike said, his teeth already bright blue. 'No, no, it tastes better,' John said. 'I feel like it's making me stronger.
~ Eric Spitznagel
I owe it all to chocolate and young men.
~ Beatrice Wood
The existence of birthday cake ice cream suggests that we can no longer distinguish celebration foods from everyday ones. We are also not too sure whether we are children or adults.
~ Bee Wilson
Chocolate's status as food for girls and women - something to be yearned for and then regretted - is so ingrained that it would be easy to assume that there is something deep within females that makes them crave chocolate.
~ Bee Wilson
Women have a special relationship with chocolate mostly because our culture tells them to. It goes back to the old claptrap about sweet treats being for 'ladies', while savoury tastes for men.
~ Bee Wilson
Neuroscience confirms that chocolate means more to some people than others.
~ Bee Wilson
Though it was composed of shortening, corn syrup, colourings and other unwholesome ingredients, with a shelf-life so long it became the punchline of many jokes, for many the Twinkie was the taste of childhood. It was Proust's madeleine for the junk-food generation.
~ Bee Wilson
Candy bar nostalgia puts us all on the same page.
~ Bee Wilson
Sugar is not love. But it can feel like it.
~ Bee Wilson
It's not birthday cake in itself that is the problem. It's the surrounding culture of food, where sweet treats are ever-present, consumed without ceremony.
~ Bee Wilson
Healthy eating should not preclude the odd cake. But it's good to be able to wait: if not for a while year, at least for an hour or two.
~ Bee Wilson
A treat cannot possibly have the same meaning in an era where white-flour cakes are everywhere and candy canes are sold by the dozen for less than the price of a loaf of bread.
~ Bee Wilson
Indulgence makes a child fat. Restriction makes a child fat and unhappy.
~ Bee Wilson
Nothing bad can happen to you when you are surrounded by cupcakes.
~ Belinda Jones