Quotes about Indulgence

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. Votes: 4

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. Votes: 4

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. Votes: 4

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. Votes: 4

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being. Votes: 4

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt. Votes: 3

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart. Votes: 3

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance Votes: 3

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come. Votes: 3

I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. Votes: 2

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. Votes: 2

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us. Votes: 2

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. Votes: 2

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. Votes: 2

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. Votes: 2

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Votes: 2

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Votes: 2

Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor. Votes: 2

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences. Votes: 2

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. Votes: 2

I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence. Votes: 2

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health. Votes: 2

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive. Votes: 2

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires Votes: 2

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence. Votes: 2

Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence. Votes: 2

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. Votes: 2

I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime. Votes: 2

One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later. Votes: 2

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint. Votes: 2

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. Votes: 2

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Votes: 2

I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music. Votes: 2

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. Votes: 2

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits. Votes: 2

I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine's Day more than diamonds! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits. Votes: 2

I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul - I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence. Votes: 2

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart. Votes: 2

It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement . Votes: 2

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Votes: 2

restraint equals indulgence Votes: 0

Guilt is a self-indulgence. Votes: 0

Shame can be self-indulgence too. Votes: 0

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. Votes: 0

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant. Votes: 0

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic. Votes: 0

The indulgence in grief is a blunder. Votes: 0

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. Votes: 0

But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings. Votes: 0

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around. Votes: 0

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance. Votes: 0

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo. Votes: 0

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. Votes: 0

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice. Votes: 0

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence Votes: 0

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding. Votes: 0

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence. Votes: 0

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on. Votes: 0

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime. Votes: 0

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past. Votes: 0

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. Votes: 0

The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence. Votes: 0

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog. Votes: 0

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence. Votes: 0

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence. Votes: 0

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Votes: 0

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate. Votes: 0

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him. Votes: 0

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal. Votes: 0

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . Votes: 0

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. Votes: 0

Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one. Votes: 0

Procrastinatio n and indulgence are nothing more than creditors who charge us interest. Votes: 0

As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free. Votes: 0

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. Votes: 0

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is inmortal Votes: 0

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony. Votes: 0

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. Votes: 0

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience. Votes: 0

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father. Votes: 0

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step. Votes: 0

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism. Votes: 0

The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet. Votes: 0

There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence. Votes: 0

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence. Votes: 0

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. Votes: 0

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. Votes: 0

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. Votes: 0

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record. Votes: 0

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. Votes: 0

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not. Votes: 0

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. Votes: 0

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied. Votes: 0

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion. Votes: 0

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people Votes: 0

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. Votes: 0

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. Votes: 0

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive. Votes: 0

[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming. Votes: 0

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage. Votes: 0

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa. Votes: 0

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint Votes: 0

While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track. Votes: 0

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. Votes: 0

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. Votes: 0

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. Votes: 0

Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice Votes: 0

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now! Votes: 0

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. Votes: 0

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption. Votes: 0

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence. Votes: 0

When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism. Votes: 0

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. Votes: 0

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. Votes: 0

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. Votes: 0

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. Votes: 0

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. Votes: 0

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while. Votes: 0

Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin. Votes: 0

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain. Votes: 0

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. Votes: 0

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury. Votes: 0

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor. Votes: 0

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. Votes: 0

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. Votes: 0

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made. Votes: 0

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt. Votes: 0

I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged. Votes: 0

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence. Votes: 0

101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition. Votes: 0

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one. Votes: 0

God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight. Votes: 0

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. Votes: 0

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams. Votes: 0

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward. Votes: 0

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters. Votes: 0

Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that. Votes: 0

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health. Votes: 0

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water. Votes: 0

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process. Votes: 0

Perhaps her requirements were too great,Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,For her attempts to form a friendship had alwaysEnded in disappointment. Votes: 0

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence. Votes: 0

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. Votes: 0

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper. Votes: 0

Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. Votes: 0

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments. Votes: 0

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding. Votes: 0

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. Votes: 0

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. Votes: 0

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. Votes: 0

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment. Votes: 0

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic. Votes: 0

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish. Votes: 0

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. Votes: 0

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich. Votes: 0

He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation. Votes: 0

The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness. Votes: 0

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. Votes: 0

What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart. Votes: 0

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. Votes: 0

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another. Votes: 0

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility. Votes: 0

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence. Votes: 0

Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level. Votes: 0

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind. Votes: 0

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part. Votes: 0

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence. Votes: 0

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things Votes: 0

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love. Votes: 0

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons." Votes: 0

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons. Votes: 0

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind. Votes: 0

Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations. Votes: 0

What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately. Votes: 0

[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation. Votes: 0

We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit. Votes: 0

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster. Votes: 0

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence. Votes: 0

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best. Votes: 0

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt. Votes: 0

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny. Votes: 0

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader. Votes: 0

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble. Votes: 0

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. Votes: 0

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions. Votes: 0

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption . Votes: 0

Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you? Votes: 0

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. Votes: 0

If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings. Votes: 0

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something. Votes: 0

Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence. Votes: 0

The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished. Votes: 0

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest. Votes: 0

I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward. Votes: 0

The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted. Votes: 0

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind . Votes: 0

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs. Votes: 0

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't? Votes: 0

All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me. Votes: 0

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. Votes: 0

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking. Votes: 0

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old. Votes: 0

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. Votes: 0

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with. Votes: 0

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose. Votes: 0