Quotes about Indulgence

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

You booze, you cruise, you lose.

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

A feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up,totally worn out and screaming "Woo Hoo" what a ride!

The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Austerity has always made me happy, and its opposite, miserable. I find it strange that, knowing this, I should so often have inflicted upon myself the nausea of over-indulgence, and had to fight off the black dogs of satiety. Human beings, as Pascal points out, are peculiar in that they avidly pursue ends they know will bring them no satisfaction; gorge themselves with food which cannot nourish and with pleasures which cannot please. I am a prize example.

luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.