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Quotes About Indulgence

I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
~ Gail Carriger
I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol
~ Thomas de Quincey
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
~ Thomas de Quincey
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
~ Thomas de Quincey
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
~ Thomas Hardy
Though it may be right to care more for the benefit of the many than for the indulgence of your own single self, when you consider that the many, and duty to them, only exist to you through your own existence, what can be said?
~ Thomas Hardy
To keep in the rear of opportunity in matters of indulgence is as valuable a habit as to keep abreast of opportunity in matters of enterprise.
~ Thomas Hardy
Uncork the cider...Sabbath or no!
~ Thomas Hardy
Good," Mapp said. "That's very good. Eat some crabs. Grab Pilcher and smooch him on his face, go wild.
~ Thomas Harris
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is my rule never to take a side in any part in the quarrels of others, nor to inquire into them. I generally presume them to flow from the indulgence of too much passion on both sides, & always find that each party thinks all the wrong was in his adversary. These bickerings, which are always useless, embitter human life more than any other cause...
~ Thomas Jeffeson
Recreation, which is to say: a refreshing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate danger of overindulging itself in the uninterrupted monotony of daily life and growing indifferent.
~ Thomas Mann
Pieter Peeperkorn will now regale himself with a schnapps.
~ Thomas Mann
Once in my life I had pomegranate juice and soda; it was too sweet.
~ Thomas Mann
Numai moartea îi putea îndupleca pe alÈ›ii s? se închine în faÈ›a suferinÈ›elor noastre, numai prin ea suferinÈ›ele cele mai meschine devin demne de respect.
~ Thomas Mann
The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.
~ Thomas Merton
concupiscence
~ Thomas Merton
The past, hey no shit, it's an open invitation to wine abuse.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.
~ Thomas Pynchon
At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good.
~ Thomas Pynchon
One of the sweetest fruits of victory, after sleep and looting, must be the chance to ignore no-parking signs.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Turns out that some merrymaker has earlier put a hundred grams of hashish in the Hollandaise. Word of this has got around. There has been a big run on broccoli.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
~ Thomas Sowell