#indulgence

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#bad #broad #early #generalization #his

My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#ice #ice cream #indulgences #raisin #rum

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#contempt #mother #over-indulgence #upbringing #home

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#disgust #hatred #immortal #indifference #indulgence

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?! ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#diet #self-indulgence #diet

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! ↗

— Mae West

#decadence #excess #indulgence #innuendo #over-indulgence

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#unhappiness #universe

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#self-indulgence #wallowing #melancholy

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#self-indulgence #emotion

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#indulgence #many #now #self #tend