Quotes About Indulgence

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

The Stoics' advocacy of sexual reserve will sound prudish to modern readers, but they had a point. We live in an age of sexual indulgence, and for many people the consequences of this indulgence have been catastrophic in terms of their peace of mind.

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

Two platters of cashew chicken double delight, egg rolls, lumpia dogs, dessert, coffee"—she paused—"and this.

His only indulgence was the stereo system: Mitsubishi receiver and CD player, Boston Acoustic speakers.

It's certain that fine women eatA crazy salad with their meat.

I have eatenthe plumsthat were inthe iceboxand whichyou were probablysavingfor breakfastForgive methey were deliciousso sweetand so cold

This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

In this way the EIC prefigured by 300 years the response of many modern corporates when faced with the regulating and taxation demands of the nation state: treat us with indulgence, they whisper, or we take our business elsewhere.

The old man always used too much of everything, too many lemons, too much sugar, as if halfmeasures at anything were beneath him.

Cum carne nutriuntur vita carnis—the lusts of the flesh are nourished when the body is pampered.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.