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Quotes About Indulgence

That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. (Last words.)
~ Lou Costello
Give me some more grog, dear friend; when I talk of the days of my youth my belly yearns for it, and I am not ashamed to beg.
~ Unknown
Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.
~ Unknown
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Gabri and I follow the way of Häagen Das. It's occasionally a rocky road.
~ Louise Penny
As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake.
~ Louise Penny
He stared for ten seconds or more, which, when eating a chocolate cake isn't much, but when staring, is.
~ Louise Penny
surrounded by candy and wrappers, as though a chocolate storm had hit.
~ Louise Penny
Beauvoir reported first between bites of a ham sandwich, made with thick-sliced ham carved from what must have been a maple-cured roast, with honey-mustard sauce and slabs of aged cheddar on a fresh croissant.
~ Louise Penny
In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch.
~ Louise Penny
Olivier was holding a tray of mille feuilles, meringues, slices of pies and little custard tarts with glazed fruit on top. He chose one covered in tiny wild blueberries.
~ Louise Penny
a pigeon would die of hunger next to a dish filled with choice meats and a cat next to a heap of fruit or grain, though either of them could get nourishment from the foods it disdains if only it had thought of trying them. This is why dissolute men give themselves over to the excesses that bring on fevers and death, because the mind perverts the senses and the will continues to speak when nature falls silent …
~ Unknown
If you knew what those [pork rinds] did to your body, you wouldn't eat them.' 'If you knew when the last time I ate was, you wouldn't bother me.
~ Jodi Picoult
That meant that he'd drunk too much too early, and had popped an Alcoterm to burn it off.
~ Joe Haldeman
When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.
~ Joe Hill
We, at the present day, can hardly understand the keenness with which a fur coat, a good fire on the hearth, a soft bed, a glass of wine, were formerly enjoyed.
~ Johan Huizinga
Should I have that extravagant dessert or call it quits for the night?" "Should I put in the extra effort here or just get by with the minimum amount required?
~ John C. Maxwell
Rachel's way was not so easy. When she lost her fat she became very pretty and quite fast. She smoked and drank and probably fornicated and the abyss that opens up before a pretty and an intemperate young woman is unfathomable.
~ John Cheever
She still required the dangerous, maddening nerve-quiver of vice to render existence bearable.
~ John Cowper Powys
Love is like a box of chocolates. You don't know how good it is until they are all gone.
~ Unknown
Big dinners make me drowsy so let's do the sex part first.
~ Unknown
For Valentine's Day, I'm going to do nothing. But the next day, I'm going to buy all the discount chocolates I like.
~ Unknown
Alcohol is not the answer to all questions.. But, if you don't get the answer it helps you to forget the question.
~ Unknown
She (Helen) threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills
~ Homer