Quotes About Indulgence

P.S. I enjoy acid pops.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

The meal will consist of macaroni di zitu, red mullet, hare in a sour sauce, boar with chocolate, turkey stuffed with ricotta, fish cooked in wine, roast suckling pig, sweet rice, conserve of scorzonera, ice-cream, sweetmeats, almond biscuits, water ices and wines from Casa Ucrìa with the strong pungent flavour of the grapes from Torre Scannatura.

Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.

I'll die without junk food.

Did you eat a lot of bonbons recently?" "No," Mrs. Daisy said, "I gave almost all of them away." "Then how did you get so fat?" I asked. "Because…" "Because we're going to have a baby!" said Mr. Macky.

Though it tastes like 'some more', one is really enough (about the s'more)

she knew part of what made Facebook—and the internet, really—addicting was simultaneously indulging your own obsessions while mocking (deriding, denouncing even) the obsessions of others from the safety of your screen.

loading a plate with steak and bread and a slab of meatloaf as thick as a Diana Gabaldon novel

I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!

Luxury is a motivational narcotic.

This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake meal is so overloaded with fat, salt and sugar that it has numbed our taste buds to virtually anything else.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

He's always said if you wish to die rich, invest in vice.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.