The taste for luxuries increases with marvelous rapidity…

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Woodrow Wilson

“People often mistake tenderheartedness for indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy—sitting around the house all day eating bonbons and wearing…

— Geneen Roth

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

— Saul Landau

“Guilt is a self-indulgence.”

— Marian Keyes

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell…

— Martin Luther

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…

— Hal Rothman

“Franciscan spirituality, means attempting to clear away some of the clutter of self-interest and self-indulgence that almost naturally attach to men and women who…

— Catherine Odell

“Some will call this self-indulgence (They are lucky not to know its truth) Some will know the simple fact of pain This is becoming…

— Sarah Kane

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have…

— Jeffrey Kluger

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,…

— Richard Dawkins

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

— David Brin

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is…

— Roland Merullo