No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied. — Stephen King 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
“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
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with… — James Hervey Copy Share Image
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in… — John Caudwell 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
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 third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a… — Shirley Henderson Copy Share Image
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. — Egerton Brydges 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 taste for luxuries increases with marvelous rapidity under indulgence. ("A Night In An Old Castle")” — George Payne Rainsford James Copy Share Image
I have to say I've been pretty lucky in that my French fry indulgences don't really affect my skin. I keep a… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
