Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tom Lenk

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

Calista Flockhart

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

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.

Ann Landers

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

Janet Reno

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

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.

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.

Anthony Daniels

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

Desmond Morris

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The members would meet in private and public places and indulge in unnatural acts.

Henry Steele Commager

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

Herman Melville

Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.

Henry David Thoreau

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

Immanuel Kant

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

George S. Patton

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.

Fran Lebowitz

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

Grover Cleveland

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

James Earl Jones

Once you begin to explain or excuse...

Jean Baudrillard

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

Kenneth Tynan

I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair.

Joseph Joubert

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.