Quotes About Indulgence

Is chocolate your answer to everything? Sometimes.

Hollywood, where the rich don't have to pay for anything.

Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between pleasure and self-destruction? And why are they so difficult to find, particularly for women?

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake —add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem — and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow... The experience of appetite in this equation is an experience of anxiety, a burden and a risk; yielding to hunger may be permissible under certain conditions, but mostly it's something to be Earned or Monitored and Controlled.

But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

Make yourself sleep? Oh, don't think of it that way." Reed let her pass him. "It's an indulgence, not a duty. 'Nature requires five, custom gives seven, laziness takes nine, and wickedness eleven.' Try to be wicked.

I don't know how anyone can drink alcohol, just based on the taste.

I'm feasting on a banquet of crumbs.

I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.

I eat so poorly during the stressful part of my day I need to have a vegetable orgy for dinner just to make up for it.

Go get us some burgers and coffee. I'll get on the horn to Mark Hopewell. I'll ask him for a list." "Cheese or plain?" "I'm on a diet." "Plain then. And no fries?" "I said I'm on a diet, not a death march.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties — give me a cigar!

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist then Pleasure.

Oh pleasure, you're indeed a pleasant thing, / Although one must be damned for you no doubt. / I make a resolution every spring / Of reformation, ere the year run out.

Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits' end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.

Just because it's forbidden doesn't mean it's good for you.

Gluttony kills more then the sword.

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you're hungry again.

The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again.