Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
My hair is naturally straight, and I maintain its texture. My weekly indulgence is an egg-white and olive oil hair mask that… — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice — Maryam Jameelah Copy Share Image
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… — Spencer Krug Copy Share Image
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail.… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
