Quotes for All
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness. Agnes Repplier
The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether… The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they’re a necessity. When I’m playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected – to my music. Rafael Vinoly
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.
A. S. Byatt
Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada