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.

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.

Tom Lenk

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

Janet Reno

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

Ann Landers

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

Desmond Morris

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

Daniel Day-Lewis

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

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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.

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.

Noam Chomsky

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.

Jean Baudrillard

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

James Earl Jones

Once you begin to explain or excuse...

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.

Moliere

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Ovid

Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

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.