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Quotes About Indulgence

...a ball of Ice Cream gooed with Chocolate and enveloped with Salted Nuts...
~ George Ade (1866–1944)
First world problems: When the hot fudge on your sundae turns cold.
~ Internet meme, c. 2017
Ice cream is happiness on a cone, with sprinkles.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hot fudge is gravy for ice cream.
~ Internet meme, c. 2013
There's nothing wrong with me that a little ice cream won't fix.
~ Author Unknown
Marcie: How can you pig-out on all that junk food every day, sir? Peppermint Patty: Life is more than carrot sticks, Marcie.
~ Charles Schulz, Peanuts, 1979
One simply does not drive home from McDonald's without eating any fries.
~ Internet meme
There is a Pleasure sure In being mad, which none but Mad-men know! Let me indulge it, let me gaze for ever!
~ John Dryden
Somebody put too many olives in my martini last night.
~ W. C. Fields, 1941
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
~ William Faulkner
If you had to decide between being given a million dollars and eating tacos, which would you choose — corn or flour?
~ Internet meme, c. 2016
Maybe eating tacos isn't cheating on my diet. Maybe me dieting is cheating on tacos.
~ Internet meme, c. 2019
I don't always go out for Mexican, but when I do I spoil my appetite with free tortilla chips.
~ Internet meme, c. 2014
IMMORALITY. The morality of those who are having a better time.
~ H. L. Mencken
There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
~ Edgar A. Guest
The better a pie tastes, the worse it is for you.
~ E. W. Howe
...we must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie... It casts out stress as the heat of the hand repels quicksilver... Keep you your precious vapors, your fantods, your anxiety. Give me a pie. Give me a pie anyday.
~ David Mamet, Boston Marriage
Plunging to the very depths of sensual pleasure, he gathered more gravel than pearls.
~ Honore de Balzac
My heart says chocolate and wine, but my jeans say "For the love of all that is good, eat a salad!"
~ Internet meme, 2014
ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Lust will curdle like milk if you don't keep using it up.
~ @AnonymousVoyeur, tweet, 2010
Coffee and tobacco are complete repose.
~ Turkish proverb
The cigarette is a mortal passion.
~ Terri Guillemets
Laß uns faul in allen Sachen, nur nicht faul zu Lieb und Wein, nur nicht faul zur Faulheit sein.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing