Quotes About Indulgence

Jon's brought a couple of bottles of Phillips peppermint schnapps to Van Cleve Park. The label says Enjoy in Moderation. Not much chance of that in this crowd.

A serving size on ice cream is like a half a cup. Is that like a joke some guy put on there? Hey, come here: look what I put for the serving size. Did you see? I just did it as a joke but they're going out like that. You ever know anybody to eat a half a cup of ice cream? Hey, you wanna go grab something to eat? Ah, no. I had a half a cup of ice cream. Ya, a whole half a cup. I just kept eating and eating and eating. I must've had two spoonfuls.

You want another one? Oh, I don't know: I've already had two whole, entire Fig Newtons. Maybe I could try to muscle one more down but I don't think I - Mmmm, I am stuffed to the wrappers! They're nuts. We got an ER here. We got a three Fig Newton eater. How many did he have? What is he nuts? Doesn't he read?

The beauty of impulse eating may be that you end up eating less—when you do eat—than someone who has been thinking about the food for hours. The more you think of something, the more of it you'll eat.5

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A luxury, once enjoyed, becomes a necessity.

Health food makes me sick.

You would fancy any man who gave you baklava, I tease. You think I am some kind of sharmuta for sweets?

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Come on, indulge yourself. You got nothing to lose that won't be lost.

Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he'd never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears.

I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.

He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.

What good's a god who gives you everything you want?

There were actual people in the world whose idea of heaven would be a chocolate cat.

Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation.

Nanny just tended to put a hot poultice on everything and recommend a large glass of whatever the patient liked best on the basis that since you were going to be ill anyway you might as well get some enjoyment out of it.

She would sip an elderflower tisane and he would drink a dark, aromatic espresso.

know too well that I am but taking to my arms a variable creature like myself, whose wishes are apt to become insistent and burdensome in proportion to the decrease of her beauty and interest?" These are the men, who, unwilling to risk the manifold contingencies of an authorized connection, are led to consider the advantages of a less-binding union, a temporary companionship. They seek to seize the happiness of life without paying the cost of their indulgence.