Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Woods

I think that we've been up until now a rather indulgent nation, and now I think we're starting to become more serious adults.

Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.

It incorporates all the trends in one product. It's healthy, indulgent and convenient.

Like a lot of snackers, I recognized that snacking is an indulgence and is all about taste.

He must surely move on to the world hereafter, like a guest, so why does he indulge in pride?

Cameron Diaz

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

C. S. Lewis

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

Baruch Spinoza

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

Dale Carnegie

If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.

Desmond Morris

There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

Anthony Daniels

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Ann Landers

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

Calista Flockhart

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

Janet Reno

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

Tom Lenk

You can't really indulge in anything when you're wearing a unitard. No bread, no beer, no anything delicious.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Bill Watterson

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

I may be permitted to indulge myself for a short time in other pursuits; but in this I should wish not only to continue, but to die.

J. Irwin Miller

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

Henry Adams

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Plato

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

John Wycliffe

It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

Pharrell Williams

My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

Jamie Cullum

A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.

Spider Robinson

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

Paul Young

I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.

Quintus Ennius

I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.

Salman Rushdie

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

Wayne Dyer

Say I Want to Feel Good when youre Tempted to Indulge in Low-Energy Thoughts

Tracee Ellis Ross

There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence.