Best Indulgence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

Source: The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religio

“The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.”

Ifs Men Mind States Play Seems Form United Quality United States Dangerous Intellectual Various Practicals Luxury Manifestation Indulgence Piety Playfulness

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent.”

Wells Children Parent Views My Children Indulgence Affectionate

Author:George Mason

“When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.”

Self Indulgence Nests Indolence Self Indulgence

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.”

People Given Wish Poverty Taken Conditions Proud Skins Absolutes Occasions Bus Indulgence Given Up Subway Cab Borderline

Book:I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

Source: I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

“The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.”

Serious Diets Chocolate Gossip Indulgence

Author:Roxanne Roberts

“For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.”

Way Soul Facts Salvation Preacher Evident Indulgence Commissioners

Author:Martin Luther

“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”

Pleasure Duty Performances Ease Indulgence Vapid

Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

“A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.”

Way Self Awareness Waste Destruction Acknowledge Devoted Indulgence Unwilling Ecological Self Destruction Tokens Self Destruct

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar , were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.”

School Study Teacher Subjects Proud Periods Draws Mathematics Drawing Faculty Neglect Recalls Grammar Indulgence Retarded Distasteful

Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .”

Hard Black Levels Deals Achievement Praise Individuality Celebrate Indulgence Disdain Exemplary

Author:John Ridley

“A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.”

Want Giving Different Self Helping Pleasure Greater Habit Healthy Treats Rewards Self Control Justified Vitality Indulgence Boost Healthy Habits Small Pleasures

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.”

People Children Five Duty Pressure Responsible Catholic Bills Raised Alcohol Household Indulgence Collectors Cookers

Author:James Wolcott

“Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.”

Self Running Young Promise Aging Psychological Landscape Our Time Indulgence Vegas Las Vegas Therapeutic Ethos Self Indulgence

Book:Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century

Source: Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century

“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”

Source: Journal of the convention of the state of Mississippi, and the act calling the same: with the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

“Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.”