George MacDonald Quotes

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

It's not easy not to play.

No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now - that instant gratification.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!

You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

You feel better in the short run when you have a tub of ice cream, but in the long run, you don't.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.