Quotes About Indulgence

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

The other danger in becoming involved with culinary delights—and here again the parallels with sex are obvious—is that they can become addictive. It

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

I drew my bath and scattered dried rose petals in the water. I stepped into the tub, pinned up my hair, dipped into the bowl of mayonnaise that had been mixed with fennel and rosemary and soaked secretly in the refrigerator for two days.

I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat.

Mom was impressed but didn't want me to go overboard, which was impossible, because I was still eating a lot. I just had taken a break from eating like a professional football player.

No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum. THE

No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum.

I lost my mind. I lunged at him and inhaled all of his fries standing up a foot away from the trash can. No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum.

I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat. You know how if you turned on a faucet in your sink to wash your hands, the idea of leaving the bathroom without turning it off is insane? That's how I am about ignoring delicious food

While I chewed on my eleven brioche rolls, I saw the likes of Gen. David Petraeus, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and that guy from Magic Mike, who also played a hot werewolf and was supposed to have a huge wang. It was an extremely glamorous night.

To that daintiest siren of puff and perfume, a Turkish cigarette.

If bad eating habits are your way of compensating for another problem, stay tuned, because French women have a much more varied menu of compensations.

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

French women know one can go far with a great haircut, a bottle of champagne, and a divine perfume.

You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.

On the whole, "offenders" are foods we tend to eat compulsively, with less actual pleasure than you might think. Often they are poor versions of something better.

But your laziness leads you astray; your greed makes you dumb; your gluttony makes enemies for you.

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

Fettucine Alfredo is just Macaroni and cheese for adults

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?