Quotes About Indulgence

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

Men are ruled by toys.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are!

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.