Quotes of Indulgence - somelinesforyou

“ Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ”

- Cesare Pavese

“ You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. ”

- Sean Penn

“ Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. ”

- John L. Motley

“ Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done. ”

- Melvin Van Peebles

“ Toleration is odious to the intolerant. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ It is a luxury to be understood. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances. Command by obeying. ”

- Motto

“ Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. ”

- Hannah More

“ Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? ”

- James Thomson

“ Zero-tolerance laws clearly go too far. ”

- Martha Mitchell

“ We're going to have a... no-tolerance approach toward violations. ”

- Robert White

“ I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. ”

- Twyla Tharp

“ Athletics is a luxury. ”

- Roger Bannister

“ I cannot be a materialist — but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery — such suffering, such dreadful suffering — and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all? ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. ”

- Saul Landau

“ There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ There are limits to the indulgence which friendship allows. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ”

- George Eliot

“ Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. ”

- Martin Tupper

“ Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. ”

- David Letterman

“ I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ”

- Fitz Greene Halleck

“ Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton
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