Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

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

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 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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“Guilt is a self-indulgence.”

— Marian Keyes

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

— Saul Landau

“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

Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on.…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

I have a job that requires me to get dressed up more often than if I were in another line of work, but I…

— Renee Zellweger