The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love standup, but it's self-indulgence. Me saying what I think and thinking people should listen to it. — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“As Royalty, indulgence in pleasurable experiences is 100% allowed and also encouraged” — Rachel D. Greenwell Copy Share Image
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
We often eat faster and more when we are hungry, so that's a definite recipe for over-indulgence. — Joshua Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Aye, so: there is love, and there is indulgence, and they may touch sometimes but they're not the same.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Penitence is nothing but a form of self-indulgence. Some things you cannot wash from your hands, and there’s no use in trying.”… — Greg Keyes Copy Share Image
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I have a job that requires me to get dressed up more often than if I were in another line of work,… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my… — Edmond Francois Valentin About Copy Share Image
Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is… — William Booth Copy Share Image
On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
![“In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I…” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/52c/martin-luther-106_beer_in-short-i-will-preach-it-the-word-teach_1062019.jpg)
